On the server with Linux OS if you observe that lot of the memory is being cached.. Like shown below total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 12155 11741 414 0 303 5830 -/+ buffers/cache: 5608 6547 Swap: 24999 0 24999 You can free up the memory cache using the below commands To […]
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How to Clear Memory cache in Linux !!!
Clearing the Linux Memory cache can be a quick way to regain system resources. Writing to the drop_cache process will cause the kernel to drop clean caches, dentries and inodes from memory, causing that memory to become free. To free pagecache:# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches To free dentries and inodes:# echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches […]
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