使用man purge命令可知:
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)
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稍微翻译一下:
purge(8) BSD System Manager's Manual purge(8)
名称
purge -- 强制清除磁盘缓存 (flushed and emptied)
简介
purge
说明
Purge 命令可以使磁盘缓存恢复到接近冷启动时的状态,以便进行性能分析。
不影响通过malloc, vm_malloc等方式申请的匿名内存。
相关命令
sync(8), malloc(3)
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不过有时不执行purge电脑就会像死机了一样,目前还不清楚真正的原因。