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本文介绍了如何在Linux系统中通过/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches来释放内存，包括页缓存、dentries和inodes。首先使用sync命令将脏对象刷新到磁盘，然后通过向/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches写入数值3来清除缓存。这是一个非破坏性的操作，只释放未使用的资源。

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We may drop the file system caches on Linux to free up memory for applications. Kernels 2.6.16 and newer provide a mechanism via the /proc/ to make the kernel drop the page cache and/or inode and dentry caches on command. We can use this mechanism to free up the memory. However, this is a non-destructive operation that only free things that are completely unused and dirty objects will not be freed until written out to disk. Hence, we should flush these dirty objects to disk first. We can run sync to flush them out to disk. And the drop operations by the kernel will free more memory.

We can flush caches of the file systems by two steps:

Flush file system buffers

Call the sync command:

# sync

Free pagecache, dentries and inodes

Just echoing a number to /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches:

# echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

原文：https://www.cnblogs.com/longchang/p/10767434.html