Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: VMM - freeing up swap space | From | Jelle Foks <> | Date | 18 Jun 2002 18:00:14 -0400 |
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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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