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Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

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How do you empty the buffers and cache on a Linux system?

Prior to doing some benchmarking work how would one free up the memory (RAM) that the Linux Kernel is consuming for its buffers and cache?

linux kernel performance cache ram

asked Aug 23, 2013 at 12:46

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