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+.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
+.\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
+.\"
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+.\"	@(#)madvise.2	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
+.\"
+.Dd June 9, 1993
+.Dt MADVISE 2
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm madvise
+.Nd give advise about use of memory
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fn madvise "caddr_t addr" "int len" "int behav"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn madvise
+system call
+allows a process that has knowledge of its memory behavior
+to describe it to the system.
+The known behaviors are given in
+.Pa <sys/mman.h> :
+.Bd -literal
+#define	MADV_NORMAL	0	/* no further special treatment */
+#define	MADV_RANDOM	1	/* expect random page references */
+#define	MADV_SEQUENTIAL	2	/* expect sequential references */
+#define	MADV_WILLNEED	3	/* will need these pages */
+#define	MADV_DONTNEED	4	/* don't need these pages */
+#define	MADV_SPACEAVAIL	5	/* insure that resources are reserved */
+.Ed
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr msync 2 ,
+.Xr munmap 2 ,
+.Xr mprotect 2 ,
+.Xr mincore 2
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm madvise
+function first appeared in 4.4BSD.