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| Author: | mjl [ Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Swap file |
Hi, How does one "purge" the swap file? Over a period of days, I have manage to totally fill my swap file with left over garbage.and would like to clean it with out rebooting. Thanks Mike |
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| Author: | tjc [ Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:37 pm ] |
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man swapoff |
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| Author: | mjl [ Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:08 pm ] |
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Hi tjc, Thanks but that wasn't very helpful. swapoff -a does nothing and top still shows it active and full. Only top even acknowledges it is lurking around somewhere. I can only assume it thinks there is something of value in swap and therefore ignores my swapoff request. I could simply reboot but that takes the fun away 
Mike |
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| Author: | mrjackson [ Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:25 am ] |
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why bother? let the kernel do what it wants and it will be happy, start messing around with stuff and then you cause problems. |
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| Author: | mjl [ Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:45 pm ] |
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Hi, In the process of diddling with my KM box I managed to fill the swap and when one only has 256 meg of memory, a little extra space is sometimes needed. For some reason unknown to me, it didn't seem to self purge because of the playing I was doing, guess the kernel thought it was still important stuff. Anyway, a simple restart of the xserver cleaned it out and all is good again I hate to reboot! That's M$ way of doing fixes.
Thanks Mike |
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