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Re: Clearing RAM Caches



On Mon, 2022-08-15 at 02:50 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> When I run `sudo echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches` I receive the following
> error: bash: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches: Permission denied

Because the output redirection occurs as your normal user, all you are
doing is executing the 'echo 1' command as the superuser.

-- 
Tixy


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