Swap fscked in 2.4.5?

[Geoffrey Romer <gromer@hmc.edu>]

My swap partition is behaving very rudely. Specifically, swap space never seems
to get freed- swap size only increases, never decreases. Once it maxes out,
the system becomes sluggish, and there's nothing to do but reboot (the notion
of rebooting a system to fix a problem is giving me Windows flashbacks...)

I'm told that this is a bug in the 2.4 series- does anyone know if upgrading
to 2.4.6 will help this problem at all? If not, are there any other 
workarounds?

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Geoffrey M. Romer
gromer@hmc.edu
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