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Date:      Sat, 15 Jun 1996 15:56:18 +0000
From:      Carlos Amengual <amengual@sadeya.cesca.es>
To:        Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: swapper
Message-ID:  <31C2DD22.4045@sadeya.cesca.es>
References:  <Pine.BSI.3.93.960615002306.8215A-100000@chain.iafrica.com>

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Khetan Gajjar wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 14 Jun 110, Jim Dennis wrote:
> 
> >       I misunderstood your message and thought you were giving us a
> >       way to selectively kill just the processes that are swapped to
> >       disk (some special signal handling in the 'swapper').
> 
> I am.
> 
> >       Considering the side effects I don't see the advantage over just
> >       restarting the whole machine.
> 
> What side-effects ? It just flushes the swapper.

But which benefit does one get from doing this ?

Carlos
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