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 mem-
ory that has been allocated through malloc, vm_allocate, etc.
SEE ALSO
sync(8), malloc(3)
September 20, 2005
Mac OS X 10.6 - Generated Thu Sep 17 20:26:14 CDT 2009