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pelican-server cache purge

Trigger LRU eviction on the running cache

Synopsis

Trigger an immediate LRU eviction cycle on the running cache.

Without —target, evicts down to the configured low water mark. With —target, evicts down to the specified total cache size.

The —target value accepts human-readable sizes: 100GB, 500MB, 1TB, etc.

Examples: pelican cache purge pelican cache purge —target 100GB pelican cache purge —token /path/to/token

pelican-server cache purge [flags]

Options

  -h, --help            help for purge
      --target string   Target cache size (e.g. 100GB, 500MB); default: configured low water mark
  -t, --token string    Path to token file (auto-generated if not provided)

Options inherited from parent commands

      --config string       config file (default is $HOME/.config/pelican/pelican.yaml)
  -d, --debug               Enable debug log messages
  -f, --federation string   Pelican federation to utilize
      --json                output results in JSON format
  -L, --log string          Specified log output file
      --version             Print the version and exit

SEE ALSO

pelican-server cache introspect verifypelican-server cache serve