{"id":9978,"date":"2024-03-14T10:24:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T10:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-configure-scheduled-memory-release-in-linux\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T16:48:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:48:04","slug":"how-to-configure-scheduled-memory-release-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-configure-scheduled-memory-release-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to configure scheduled memory release in Linux?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can use cron scheduled tasks on Linux system to free up memory. You can create a script to release memory regularly and have cron run it on a schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a simple example script that can free up memory on a Linux system.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-meta\">#!\/bin\/bash<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># Free memory by clearing the page cache<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">sync<\/span> &amp;&amp; <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">echo<\/span> 3 &gt; \/proc\/sys\/vm\/drop_caches\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># Free memory by clearing the dentries and inodes<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">sync<\/span> &amp;&amp; <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">echo<\/span> 2 &gt; \/proc\/sys\/vm\/drop_caches\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># Free memory by clearing all caches<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">sync<\/span> &amp;&amp; <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">echo<\/span> 1 &gt; \/proc\/sys\/vm\/drop_caches\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">echo<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Memory freed\"<\/span>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>You can save the script above as a file named free_memory.sh and make it executable by using the command chmod +x free_memory.sh.<\/p>\n<p>Next, you can use cron to schedule the execution of this script. 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