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February 1, 2019

Empty Buffer or Cache

Here’s the command to empty or clear Linux’s buffer or cache. Run it as root.

free && sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free

free && sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free

Filed Under: Linux Tagged With: buffer, cache, clear, purge

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I'm Ulysses, a Cloud Engineer at Cardinal Health in Dublin, Ohio. I’m a Certified AWS Solutions Architect Associate. My desktop is Linux Mint and my phone is an iPhone. My favorite server stack runs on Ubuntu, Apache, PHP, and MariaDB. My favorite PHP framework is Laravel and CodeIgniter. I've been a WordPress user since release 1.2 circa May 2004. I used to surf, snowboard and play the saxophone. Lately, I've been riding my electric skateboard.

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