From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 16 06:42:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA08272 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 06:42:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chain.iafrica.com (root@chain.iafrica.com [196.7.74.174]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA08267 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 06:42:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain.iafrica.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA03407 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 14:53:43 +0200 (SAT) X-Authentication-Warning: chain.iafrica.com: khetan owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 14:53:43 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Way to flush swap Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all. Does anyone out there have a solution to flushing swap, besides for rebooting the machine, buying more ram or increasing the size of the swap partition ? My swap fills up and doesn't seem to let go of its contents after I quit out of applications. I've got 32mb of RAM and am running X. [chain] ~$ swapinfo Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/wd1s1b 44128 42000 2064 95% Interleaved The processes I'm running are [chain] ~$ ps -uaxwww | grep khetan | awk {'print $11'} /usr/local/lib/netscape/netscape.bin xearth fvwm95-2 -bash /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2//FvwmButtons /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2//FvwmTaskBar /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2//FvwmAuto /bin/sh /bin/sh xdaliclock xload /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2//FvwmPager -bash -bash rxvt top (pine) /bin/sh rxvt ps grep -bash Regards, Khetan Gajjar. --- Visit me at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ UUNet-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002