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By: Bhavesh Patel | Updated: 2017-03-31 | Comments (2) | Related: More >Performance Tuning
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Problem
Sometimes there are issues due to what SQL Server has stored in its cache. Here are some possible reasons which may create cachingperformance issues.
- Ad-hoc Query workload issues due to cache bloat
- Excessive use of dynamic T-SQL code
- Server has insufficient memory or not properly assigned to SQL instances
- Memory pressure generated due to heavy long running transactions
- Server has frequent recompilation events
When issues such as these are found you may need to flush the plan cache or buffer cache.So in this tip we look at different ways to flush the SQL Server cache.
Solution
Iwill explain different commands that you can use to manage what is in the cache.
DBCC FREEPROCCACHE
This command allows you to clear the plan cache, a specific plan or a SQLServer resource pool.
Syntax
- plan handle uniquely identifies a query plan for a batch that has executed and whose plan resides in the plan cache.
- sql_handle is the SQL handle of the batch to be cleared. sql_handle is varbinary(64).
- pool_name is the name of a Resource Governor resource pool.
Examples
Flush the entire plan cache for a SQL Server instance.
Flush the plan cached for an entire instance, but suppress the output messages.
To flush a specific resource pool, we can use this command to see how muchmemory is being used for each resource pool.
Then with the output above, we can specify the specific resource pool to flushas follows.
We can also flush a single query plan. To do this we need to first get the plan_handle fromthe plan cache as follows:
Then we can use the plan_handle as follows to flush that one query plan.
DBCC FLUSHPROCINDB
This allows you to clear the plan cache for a specific database.
Syntax
Example
Flush the database plan cache for database MyDB.
DBCC FREESYSTEMCACHE
Releases all unused cache entries from all caches. You can use this commandto manually remove unused entries from all caches or from a specific ResourceGovernor pool.
Syntax
Examples
The following example uses the MARK_IN_USE_FOR_REMOVAL clause to release entries from all current caches once the entries become unused.
Flush the ad hoc and prepared plan cache for the entire server instance.
Clear all table variables and temp tables cached.
Clear for a specific user database.
Remove the tempdb cache.
DBCC FREESESSIONCACHE
Flushes the distributed query connection cache used by distributed queries against an instance of SQL Server.
Syntax
Example
DBCC FLUSHAUTHCACHE
DBCC FLUSHAUTHCACHE flushes the database authentication cache maintained information regarding login and firewall rules for the current user database. This commandcannot run in the master database, because the master database maintains the physical storage information regarding login and firewall rules.
Syntax
Using sp_recompile
For specific objects that are cached, we can pass a procedure name, trigger, table,view, function in the current database and it will be recompiled next time it isrun.
Syntax
Example
Using ALTER DATABASE
You can also clear the plan cache for the current database using ALTERDATABASE as shown below. This is new in SQL Server 2016.
Syntax
DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS
Use DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS to test queries with a cold buffer cache without shutting down and restarting the server.
Syntax
- WITH NO_INFOMSGS - Suppresses all informational messages. Informational messages are always suppressed on SQL Data Warehouse and Parallel Data Warehouse.
- COMPUTE - Purge the query plan cache from each Compute node.
- ALL - Purge the query plan cache from each Compute node and from the Control node. This is the default if you do not specify a value.
Next Steps
- Check out these other performance related tips Performance Tips.
- Reference Link used for more clarification aboutthese command.
- Please be careful while flushing the cache. This can impact overallperformance and it is best to first test with a development or QA environment beforerunning in production.
Last Updated: 2017-03-31
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Bhavesh Patel is a SQL Server database professional with 10+ years of experience.
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You can write to
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
file to instruct kernel to drop clean caches, as well as reclaimable slab objects like dentries and inodes. Once dropped, their memory becomes free.This is not recommended to clear memory cache on Linux systems, but it is safe. But clearing cache may cause performance issue with system. Since it discards cached objects from memory, it may cost a significant amount of I/O and CPU to recreate the dropped objects.
This tutorial will help you to clear memory cache on Linux/Unix system via command line.
How to Clear Cache in Linux System
There are three options available to clear cache in Linux system memory. Use one of below as per your requirements.
- Clear PageCache, dentries and inodes in cache memory
- Clear dentries and inodes only in cache memory
- Clear pagecache only in cache memory
Here the
sync
command is used to increase the number of objects freed by the drop cache. Using this a user can claim more memory by clearing more dirty objects on the system.How to Schedule Clear Memory Cache
If you have to clear buffer cache regularly, use the cronjob do it. Schedule the following in system crontab to automatically flush cache memory on a regular interval.
Open a terminal and execute ‘crontab -e’ command to edit crontab:
Append below entry to the file:
Clear Cache Memory Pc
The above cron will execute on every hour and flushes the memory cache on your system.
How to find Cache Memory in Linux
Use free command to find out cache memory uses by Linux system. Output of free command is like below
Output:
Clear Cache Memory Xp
Here the last column is showing cached memory (12953 MB) on Linux system. The -m option is used to show output MB’s.