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purge(8)

force disk cache to be purged (flushed and emptied)

NAME

purge – force disk cache to be purged (flushed and emptied)

SYNOPSIS

purge

DESCRIPTION

Purge can be used to approximate initial boot conditions with a cold disk buffer cache for performance analysis. It does not affect anonymous memory that has been allocated through malloc, vm_allocate, etc.

SEE ALSO

malloc(3), sync(8)

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