Bought a second hand e-reader and now importing nearly 1k of PDF files into Calibre's library.

Its taking huge amounts of ram and my laptop started freezing.

~$ nano clean.sh

while :
do
sudo sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
done

~$ chmod +x clean.sh
~$ ./clean.sh

👌

s/nano/vim/ -.-

What does this do?

Also the kernel cache is useful for performance improvement.. programs load their stuff into RAM so that it doesn't need to be fetched from disk for good reason - it's much faster. And spamming the command like that in a while loop can cause its own performance issues. Use it only once when necessary.

In my .aliases I have set it like this: alias dropcache='sudo sh -c "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"'
That way I can issue dropcache command when necessary, but only as a last resort when stuff really starts to pile up.

There is a typo. It should be <3

If you want any more books, let me know. I've got about 5000 PDF's and epubs on development, wilderness survival, first aid, all sorts

@zlice Actually I have something like that in the Arch installer script for my dotfiles (https://gitlab.com/irc.condor/...) :3

install_cronjob(){
cat >/tmp/rmtmpinfo <<-EOL
# .info files go here.
infofiles="/tmp/kernel.info /tmp/icanhazip.info"
rm \${infofiles}
EOL
sudo install -m755 -o root -g root /tmp/rmtmpinfo /etc/cron.hourly/rmtmpinfo
rm /tmp/rmtmpinfo
}

Untested code though.. no idea if it'll work or not. Haven't done a whole lot of work on my dotfiles lately. <<- deals nicely with indentations by the way :)

@zlice Yeah, I ended up migrating the repo to GitLab instead.. the GitHub one is still there, but I'm not pushing to it anymore. I may eventually start pushing to both again but for now my GitLab repo is most up-to-date :)

@Condor s/vim/emacs/

echo will fail, no permission

What make is the e-reader?

@DucksCanCode Care to share the URL for the books?

@kaloxy it's on my data drive rn, I'll put it here when I've set up a public link