Like any other operating system, GNU/Linux has implemented memory management efficiently and even more than that. However, if any process is eating away your memory and you want to clear it, Linux provides a way to flush or clear the RAM cache.
In this article, we will show you how to clear RAM memory cache, buffer, and swap space on a Linux system, along with when you should (and shouldn’t) do it.
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