diff --git a/libtransmission/fdlimit.c b/libtransmission/fdlimit.c
index 957de429d..793afa858 100644
--- a/libtransmission/fdlimit.c
+++ b/libtransmission/fdlimit.c
@@ -305,6 +305,11 @@ tr_close_file( int fd )
     const int err = errno;
     posix_fadvise( fd, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED );
     errno = err;
+#endif
+#ifdef SYS_DARWIN
+    /* it's unclear to me from the man pages if this actually flushes out the cache,
+     * but it couldn't hurt... */
+    fcntl( fd, F_NOCACHE, 1 );
 #endif
     close( fd );
 }