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wealthychef, 2008-02-25

Trouble is that Cunning Fox does not work on Intel, apparently.

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by
guns, 2008-04-24 (score: 11)

c'mon people: /usr/bin/purge

Just type in 'purge' at the command line (Terminal.app)

from the man page:

PURGE BSD System Manager's Manual PURGE

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)

Alternately, run 'du /' in the terminal for 10 seconds and then kill it with 'killall du'

Rapidly seeking the hard disk tends to free up inactive memory.

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by
gnu, 2008-05-25

@guns:

wow. purge did the job :D
thank u very much for ur comment!