CACHEDEL(1)

📦 version 1.2, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

okay so bestie, you found the cachedel page, aka CACHEDEL(1) 💅✨ no cap, it's giving "make the kernel forget this file's pagecache" energy.

🎀 NAME 🎀

cachedel — drop pagecache for a file 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

cachedel [-n <n>] file

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -n <n> — literally "Repeat system call". It will call posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) <n> in a row. yes, back-to-back, one after another, the whole routine 🔁💫

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Call posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) on file. That's the whole vibe. no extra steps, no plot twist, just that syscall doing its thing on the file you point it at 🫶

xoxo, this page was served by cachedel, dated March 2013, and it lives in CACHEDEL(1). bye bestie 🎀🦋💜

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