Query: purge
OS: osx
Section: 8
Format: Original Unix Latex Style Formatted with HTML and a Horizontal Scroll Bar
purge(8) BSD System Manager's Manual purge(8)NAMEpurge -- force disk cache to be purged (flushed and emptied)SYNOPSISpurgeDESCRIPTIONPurge 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 ALSOsync(8), malloc(3) September 20, 2005
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