purge(8) BSD System Manager's Manual purge(8)NAMEpurge — force disk cache to be purged (flushed and emptied)
SYNOPSISpurgeDESCRIPTION
Purge can be used to approximate initial boot conditions with a cold disk
buffer cache for performance analysis. It does not affect anonymous mem‐
ory that has been allocated through malloc, vm_allocate, etc.
SEE ALSOsync(8), malloc(3)
September 20, 2005