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From: Jelle Foks <jelle@frontierd-us.com>
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 18:00:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1024437615.2891.5.camel@zoot> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EE83E551E08D1D43AD52D50B9F5110927E7AA0@ntserver2>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-18 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-18 17:26 VMM - freeing up swap space Gregory Giguashvili
2002-06-18 22:00 ` Jelle Foks [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-18 15:56 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

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