Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: VMM - freeing up swap space | From | Austin Gonyou <> | Date | 18 Jun 2002 11:04:51 -0500 |
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The -AA kernels have fixes for this so it actually reclaims the swap and *cached* memory as well.
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 10:56, Gregory Giguashvili wrote: > Hello, > > Running an application allocating huge amounts of memory would push some > data from RAM to swap area. After the application terminates, swap area is > usually still occupied. > > Is there any way to clean up the swap area by pushing the data back to RAM? > > Thanks in advance > Giga > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Gregory Giguashvili > Senior Software Engineer > Email: gregoryg@ParadigmGeo.com > Tel: 972-9-9709379 Fax: 972-3-9709337 > Paradigm Geophysical Ltd. > http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~gregoryg > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Austin Gonyou <austin@digitalroadkill.net> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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