How do I clear tracked entities in entity framework

Question

I am running some correction code that runs over a big pile of entities, as it progress its speed decreases, that is because the number of tracked entities in the context in

Answer 1

I'm running a windows service that updates values every minute and I have had the same problem. I tried running @DavidSherrets solution but after a few hours this got slow as well. My solution was to simply create a new context like this for every new run. Simple but it works.

_dbContext = new DbContext();