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1.14 Clear Cache

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Tomato6966 edited this page Jul 29, 2021 · 2 revisions

1. Clear PageCache only.

sync; echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

2. Clear dentries and inodes.

sync; echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

3. Clear PageCache, dentries and inodes.

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

4. "Clear Swap"

swapoff -a 
swapon -a

Make sure to be be logged in as "root"

Hover over the Boxes then you can copy paste it in the console, everything will be done automatically!

Note that if you do it without SUDO you might not have permissions to execute a specific Command

Make sure to be in the User: "root" by typing su root / su - / sudo su

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