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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