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From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Subject: Re: Simple swap question
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>
> 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 need. something got swapped out, and will be swapped into memory 
when needed.