Dev1 Galaxy Forum / Flushing cached data in RAM

Re: Flushing cached data in RAM

dummy@example.com (Dutch_Master) — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:48:40 +0000

Ok, thx! I should have known that

Re: Flushing cached data in RAM

dummy@example.com (Andre4freedom) — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:12:52 +0000

sync, my friend, is the answer.
do a "man sync" first and rtfm.
Obviously, you should run it as root or using sudo.
Should you have a hardware RAID controller, the data will not be flushed from the controller-cache to the disks!
Sync flushes disk-data from the main memory (system RAM) only.
Hope that helps.

Flushing cached data in RAM

dummy@example.com (Dutch_Master) — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 13:24:20 +0000

My file-server, running Ascii, has 32GB RAM and after syncing my home folder to the RAID, cached data remains visible in the RAM in the Webmin overview page. How do I get to flush this data from RAM? I know I can reboot, but there should be an alternative way. In Linux, there always is (well, almost always )

TIA!