From: Austin Gonyou <austin@digitalroadkill.net>
To: Gregory Giguashvili <Gregoryg@ParadigmGeo.com>
Cc: "Linux Kernel \(E-mail\)" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VMM - freeing up swap space
Date: 18 Jun 2002 11:04:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1024416291.7689.34.camel@UberGeek> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EE83E551E08D1D43AD52D50B9F5110927E7A9E@ntserver2>
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-18 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-18 15:56 VMM - freeing up swap space Gregory Giguashvili
2002-06-18 15:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-06-18 16:32 ` DevilKin
2002-06-18 16:56 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-06-18 18:17 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-06-19 1:27 ` Tom Vier
2002-06-18 16:04 ` Austin Gonyou [this message]
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2002-06-18 17:26 Gregory Giguashvili
2002-06-18 22:00 ` Jelle Foks
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