Slab

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drop_caches

Writing to this will cause the kernel to drop clean caches, as well as
reclaimable slab objects like dentries and inodes.  Once dropped, their
memory becomes free.

To free pagecache:
	echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
To free reclaimable slab objects (includes dentries and inodes):
	echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
To free slab objects and pagecache:
	echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

Cache, CDN caches, APCu, OPcache, Memcache, Redis, L3 cache