Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:06:00 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add some drop_caches documentation and info messsge |
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 01:48:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Well who knows. Could be that people's vm *does* suck. Or they have > some particularly peculiar worklosd or requirement[*]. Or their VM > *used* to suck, and the drop_caches is not really needed any more but > it's there in vendor-provided code and they can't practically prevent > it.
I have drop_caches in my suspend-to-disk script so that the hibernation image is kept at minimum and suspend times are as small as possible.
Would that be a valid use-case?
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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