{"id":3154,"date":"2015-11-17T11:04:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T11:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2021-02-08T04:54:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T04:54:49","slug":"how-to-flush-memory-cache-on-linux-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/how-to-flush-memory-cache-on-linux-server\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Flush Memory Cache on Linux Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Many times Linux systems faced low memory issues,This article has details about how to Flush Memory Cache on Linux Server.There are three options available to flush cache of Linux memory. You can use one\u00a0of below as per your requirements.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To free pagecache, dentries and inodes in cache memory use:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">sync; echo 3 &gt; \/proc\/sys\/vm\/drop_caches<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To free dentries and inodes use following command:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">sync; echo 2 &gt; \/proc\/sys\/vm\/drop_caches<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If to free pagecache only use following command:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">sync; echo 1 &gt; \/proc\/sys\/vm\/drop_caches<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>You can also schedule\u00a0following in<a href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/how-to-install-crontab-in-centosrhel-765\/\"> crontab<\/a> to automatically flush cache on regular basis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">crontab -e\r\n\r\n0 * * *  * sync; echo 3 &gt; \/proc\/sys\/vm\/drop_caches<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many times Linux systems faced low memory issues,This article has details about how to Flush Memory Cache on Linux Server.There are three options available to flush cache of Linux memory. 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