[plaes]

Yes, it was actually sort of a response to that webpage that said it was not possible to free this cached memory.

The cache dropping is actually useful when you are doing benchmarking...

[mjb]

> The cache dropping is actually useful when you are doing benchmarking...

Agreed.

My response was more to the "Let's Put 'echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' In Cron and Get Free RAM!!!!" thinking, which sadly seems to be widespread.