osx man page for purge

Query: purge

OS: osx

Section: 8

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purge(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						  purge(8)

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
sync(8), malloc(3) September 20, 2005
Related Man Pages
di-netboot-assistant(1) - debian
doveadm-purge(1) - centos
sync(8) - freebsd
pdl::diskcache(3) - suse
pdl::diskcache(3pm) - debian
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