NOTE: Little clarification, this is not needed at all ,as memory is freed when required.
WHY IT MAY BE HELP-FULL: This clears the page-cache , dentires and inodes.
IT’S TRANSLATION : It may be that you are watching a movie or using a Virtual Machine , a resource hungry process has filled up your ram by caching data and the data needs to be continuously removed to make space for new data . This is managed by the kernel.
IF YOU STILL DON’T GET IT: Notice video in your movie hanging (not audio) while your ram gets cached Or your system running a bit slow ?
1) Stop the process consuming loads of memory. (Check System Monitor).
2) Open a terminal with root privileges .
3) Sync
4) echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
5) echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
PS: I am keeping this post short and non technical (Any recommendations regarding the post are appreciated )
Will it be helpful in deallocating the already in use memory and cache coz linux starts lagging after an an hour or two of running and it takes up all available memory and cache. (system monitor still shows that only 25% of RAM is being used though)
Definitely , you can also make a shell script to do clean up after 2 hours.