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    This document provides instructions for clearing memory cache on Linux systems. It explains how to manually clear the cache with a simple command or to automate the process by adding a cron job. The cron job runs a script every hour that uses the sync and echo commands to clear the various cache types stored in /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. Screenshots show the available memory increasing after running the clearing script.

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    This document provides instructions for clearing memory cache on Linux systems. It explains how to manually clear the cache with a simple command or to automate the process by adding a cron job. The cron job runs a script every hour that uses the sync and echo commands to clear the various cache types stored in /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. Screenshots show the available memory increasing after running the clearing script.

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    7/22/2014 How to Clear Memory Cache on Linux | Unixmen

    How to Clear Memory Cache on


    Linux
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    By default, every Linux OS has an efficient memory management system used to clear the buffer
    cache periodically. You can manually free up the memory cache with the following simple command:

    sk@sk:~$ sudo sh -c "sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"

    However, if you want to force the Linux OS to do clearing memory cache on a particular interval, just
    add the command to cron job. Here, I show you how.

    Open up your terminal and enter the following command to create a file called cacheclear.sh. Say
    for example, I create cacheclear.shfile in my /home directory:

    sk@sk:~$ sudo vi /home/cacheclear.sh

    Add the following lines to cacheclear.sh file:

    #!/bin/sh
    sudo sh -c "sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"

    Save and exit the file. Now add this file to your crontab:

    sk@sk:~$ sudo crontab -e

    This command opens the current user cron file. If you want to set it to some other user, use the
    following command instead:

    sk@sk:~$ sudo crontab -e -u username

    Add the following line at the end:

    0 * * * * /home/cacheclear.sh

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    Save and exit the file. Once you’re done, cron job will run this command every hour and will clear the
    system memory caches.

    After testing with the above command, the sample results are shown in the below screen shots.

    Before running the memory cache clearing script.

    After running the memory cache clearing script.

    As per the above outputs, the memory caches are reduced a bit.

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