Linux, programming and more
Actuals Debian 7 brings a stable Kernel version 3.2.0-4. For some development reasons I need a newer Kernel version so in this way was this tutorial created.
Install the needed packages for the compilation process:
1 | apt-get install kernel-package fakeroot build-essential ncurses-dev |
1 | wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.10.tar.xz |
Writing to on of this three files will cause the kernel to drop clean caches, dentries and inodes from memory, causing that memory to become free.
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Attention this tutorial was written for ARM-Based systems in my case it was a Trim-Slice system, without MBR (without grub). It was a plain Debian without Kernel and boot loader
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