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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Mike Kercher wrote:

> Is there any way of reclaiming or reinitializing the swap space on a
> FreeBSD box without rebooting?  I show about 70% of my swap space being
> used and a few megs of free RAM.

Swap is on a separate slice, so it's usage doesn't impact your
filesystems during runtime.   If you consistently run with 70% swap, you
might consider buying a new disk and adding some swap to it along with new
filesystem space.  Or backing everything up and re-disklabeling.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major