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MEMORY PURGE

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Available since: 4.0.0

Time complexity: Depends on how much memory is allocated, could be slow

ACL categories: @slow

The MEMORY PURGE command attempts to purge dirty pages so these can be reclaimed by the allocator.

This command is currently implemented only when using jemalloc as an allocator, and evaluates to a benign NOOP for all others.

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