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Free memory - LinuxNoob - 07-01-2016
Hey everyone! I been Googling for an easy way to free up memory with a few terminal commands instead of using a program like Bleachbit. I searched the forum before posting here.
Found this but I keep getting permission denied!
http://blog.midnightmonk.com/225/linux/free-up-and-release-unused-or-cached-memory.shtml#comments
Basically a quite convenient way to go about it.
Thank you.
Re: Free memory - JmaCWQ - 07-01-2016
I use these occasionally.
free -m to see how much is being used
sudo sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=3 to clear it.
Re: Free memory - Valtam - 07-02-2016
I use this on my servers, add it to your .bashrc
Code:
alias flushmem="sudo sh -c 'echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' && sudo sh -c 'echo 2 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' && sudo sh -c 'echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'"Re: Free memory - LinuxNoob - 07-02-2016
Thank you! and I'm sorry I could not reply sooner. Had some things come up that kept me away from the computer.
I'll make a batch file to run those