Oracle Applications

How to flush used memory on Linux

Result before drop_cache command

$ cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemFree

MemFree:        59842804 kB

Run following command as ROOT user

$ sync;echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

Result after drop_cache command

$ cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemFree

MemFree:        239955544 kB

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