Re: purging swap disk
One possible way to achieve this is to do a 'swapoff' followed by a
'swapon' ..... ;)
Gruss
Steffan
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001, Brian Stults wrote:
>
>Is there a way to purge the swap disk? When I run something like
>win4lin, it can sometimes take up a lot of disk swap. When I close the
>program, the swap space still appears to be occupied. It's mostly an
>annoyance, and probably doesn't affect anything. However, it seems that
>perhaps it would be better to remove it from disk swap since the next
>time the program runs there may be room for the information in the
>faster RAM memory. Does that make any sense? Even if it doesn't I
>would still be interested to know if there is a way to purge the swap
>disk. It just nags at me to see all that space being used when nothing
>is running. I know, that's probably dumb.
>
> -Brian
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