From 9222136ac9b2e404dba128b1ac74dacaa8bf1038 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 11:18:53 +0100
Subject: Generated code for drop-caches command.

---
 perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

(limited to 'perl/lib')

diff --git a/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm b/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm
index 9501a83f..63a49259 100644
--- a/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm
+++ b/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm
@@ -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
-- 
cgit