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SubjectRE: VMM - freeing up swap space
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On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 13:26, Gregory Giguashvili wrote:
> >Sure. Execute `swapoff -a`, followed by `swapon -a`. This is no joke.
>
> Thanks. That really helped, let alone the fact that swapoff is a lengthy
> operation (I can understand why), the resulting memory was even less than
> the original RAM+swap size. I guess that happened because of memory
> rearrangements when moving it up to RAM.

Or mmapped files for which pages had been read into memory, but were
freed to make room for your large data allocations.

Jelle

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