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No; those cause the kernel to write dirty pages to disk more frequently, but not to remove clean ones from the cache. You want vm.swappiness set to zero.

psusi
– psusi

2015-09-29 14:37:23 +00:00
Commented Sep 29, 2015 at 14:37
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I have already tried this stuff but even after doing this and dropping the cache i.e. echo 3 >> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches still in cache there remain around 180 MB is there any way to reduce the cache size further?

LinuxLerner
– LinuxLerner

2015-09-30 09:29:09 +00:00
Commented Sep 30, 2015 at 9:29

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