Release memory used by the Linux kernel on caches.

To clean up memory of unnecessary things run sync first to flush useful things out to disk.

root# sync

To free pagecache: echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

To free dentries and inodes: echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

To free pagecache, dentries and inodes: echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

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