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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2009-05-01 11:18:53 +0100
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2009-05-01 11:18:53 +0100
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Generated code for drop-caches command.
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diff --git a/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm b/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm
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--- a/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm
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@@ -461,6 +461,18 @@ C<filename> can also be a named pipe.
See also C<$h-E<gt>upload>, C<$h-E<gt>cat>.
+=item $h->drop_caches ($whattodrop);
+
+This instructs the guest kernel to drop its page cache,
+and/or dentries and inode caches. The parameter C<whattodrop>
+tells the kernel what precisely to drop, see
+L<http://linux-mm.org/Drop_Caches>
+
+Setting C<whattodrop> to 3 should drop everything.
+
+This automatically calls L<sync(2)> before the operation,
+so that the maximum guest memory is freed.
+
=item $existsflag = $h->exists ($path);
This returns C<true> if and only if there is a file, directory