Re: CPU slow after running web browser, any command to recover it back again soon?

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com> writes:

> On 07/11/2015 08:55 PM, David Wright wrote:
>> Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.medina@gmail.com):
>> 
>>> I simply want to speed up the natural process through which the machine
>>> itself gets back to working normally as before, like someone that breaths
>>> with difficulty after a tremendous scare and it takes time to get breathing
>>> normally again.  I was asking if any command exists, to shorten that.  I
>>> though `sync' was it, but isn't.
>> 
>> sync merely flushes the buffers waiting to be written.
>> 
>
> [...]
> I once had a similar situation with a slow computer and found clearing
> swap guaranteed nothing unneeded would remain.
>
> Close the browser, then:
> #swapoff -a && swapon -a
>
> $ man swapoff   before you try this.  Your mileage may vary...


Thanks.  It seems to work, and to be what I was looking for...

Rodolfo