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Old 12-18-2008
Release the memory which is cached.
Hi,

Can any one suggest me the way how can get mamory which has been cached during a process execution without rebooting the machine?
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Old 12-18-2008
I don't know of a general tool/binary to do that. Usually it is in the programmer's hand to release unused memory afaik.
Also like in your very similar post (which makes this one here: https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...arge-file.html going on the borderline to a duplicate post and being closed), a lot depends on OS what kind of tools are available or not.

Edit:
I just saw you are in discussion in this thread already so I close this one here:
Linux Server free memory decreases

You also got a helpful link here from Neo:
Free Linux Memory by Dropping Caches

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