When your Mac is slowing down, try this Terminal tip

Jonny Evans

Watching Apple since 1999. I don't say what they should do. I say what they might do. They sometimes do.

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  1. Cache says:

    This actually doesn’t clear memory but disk cache. From the purge man page:

    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.

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