February 20th, 2009 by T4L
In Linux, you can clear the cache of the memory by using
sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
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How to do that with Ubuntu? I tried it with sudo, but it keeps saying Permission is needed.
faizlo
log on to root and try the command
or try sudo sh -c "sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"
sudo sh -c "sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"
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How to do that with Ubuntu? I tried it with sudo, but it keeps saying Permission is needed.
faizlo
log on to root and try the command
or try
sudo sh -c "sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"