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Spring clean memory on Linux systems
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # SPDX-License-Identifier: Unlicense | |
| # Author: Derrick Lyndon Pallas <[email protected]> | |
| sync && | |
| echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && | |
| echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory && | |
| true | |
| # |
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As described in https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt