On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:50:43AM -0500, 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.
It'll be removed from swap when the swap is actually needed for something else. Until then, there's no point wasting time throwing out data when there's no pressure on the space anyway. Don't worry about it. (swapoff and swapon will probably clear things - but this definitely falls under the heading of unnecessary micromanagement.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
