vmtouch Command Examples

Manage the filesystem cache. More information: https://manned.org/vmtouch.

• Print the cache status of a file:

vmtouch {{path/to/file}}

• Load a file into cache:

vmtouch -t {{path/to/file}}

• Evict a file from cache:

vmtouch -e {{path/to/file}}

• Lock a file in cache to prevent eviction from memory:

vmtouch -l {{path/to/file}}

• Lock a file and daemonize the program:

vmtouch -ld {{path/to/file}}