I am currently having some issues with the cache. It is a little too much right now so I wanted to clear it. I googled and found this little command: sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches.
I am logged in as root over SSH (not using sudo). These are the attempts I made:
root@server: ~ # ll /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 15. Jan 20:21 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
root@server: ~ # echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
-bash: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches: Permission denied
root@server: ~ # sudo su -c "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"
bash: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches: Permission denied
root@server: ~ # echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
tee: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches: Permission denied
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It is a remote machine running Debian. As far as I know there are some vCores in this machine and it uses Virtuozzo for the virtualization.
I really just want to clear the cache (So I can only access it using SSH).
I also tried registering this as a cronjob. But it simply fails too!
Best Answer
Is it actually a remote machine, or a just a remote system? If this is a VPS slice somewhere, (at least some forms of) OS virtualization (e.g. openVZ) won't permit this from within the container. You don't run the machine, you just run your slice.