One possible way to achieve this is to do a 'swapoff' followed by a 'swapon' ..... ;)
Gruss Steffan On Wed, Dec 12, 2001, Brian Stults wrote: > >Is there a way to purge the swap disk? When I run something like >win4lin, it can sometimes take up a lot of disk swap. When I close the >program, the swap space still appears to be occupied. It's mostly an >annoyance, and probably doesn't affect anything. However, it seems that >perhaps it would be better to remove it from disk swap since the next >time the program runs there may be room for the information in the >faster RAM memory. Does that make any sense? Even if it doesn't I >would still be interested to know if there is a way to purge the swap >disk. It just nags at me to see all that space being used when nothing >is running. I know, that's probably dumb. > > -Brian > >-- >Brian J. Stults >Department of Sociology >3219 Turlington >PO Box 117330 >Gainesville, Florida 32611-7330 >phone: (352) 392-0265 x286 >fax: (352) 392-6568 >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
