Fwd: Clearing RAM Caches

[Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com>]

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From: Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: Clearing RAM Caches
To: Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 4:12 AM Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> wrote:

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.

 

Thanks for the clarification. `echo 1 > sudo /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches` seems to work just fine. 

 

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