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Subject: Re: Simple swap question
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On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:16:10 FreeBSD wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a FreeBSD 7.0-Release server that started to swap after an error
> in a shell script (process spawning competition ;-) ). I killed the
> shell and the RAM is now OK. The problem is that the swap is still used.
> How can I "reset" the swap?

You don't.  The system will handle it for you, I promise.  :-)
-- 
Kirk Strauser