system_cmds-597.1.1/purge.tproj/purge.8

   1 .Dd September 20, 2005
   2 .Dt purge 8
   3 .Sh NAME
   4 .Nm purge
   5 .Nd force disk cache to be purged (flushed and emptied)
   6 .Sh SYNOPSIS
   7 .Nm purge
   8 .Sh DESCRIPTION
   9 .Nm Purge
  10 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.
  11 .Pp
  12 .Sh SEE ALSO
  13 .Xr sync 8 ,
  14 .Xr malloc 3