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How to free up memory that has been cached in Ubuntu and derived distributions.

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To clear the RAM cache in Linux, use this simple command as root.

Clear PageCache, dentries and inodes.

root@jason-desktop:~# sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

This is a very useful command for clearing the RAM cache if a process has been eating away at your memory and you need to clear it quickly. This command must be run as root and not with sudo. Use sudo su - then run this command properly. This does work though, and will not interrupt your Linux operations.


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