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Date:      Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:32:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Arjan <lists@alpha.nl>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Swapping off swapspace
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980824103144.19157E-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <024601bdcf6f$5b30db90$98626dc2@lisboa.nedstat.nl>

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are you running X11?
if so kill the X server and restart it?

do you have an MFS /tmp?
that will consume a lot of swap.

(unmount and remount it)

julian

On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Arjan wrote:

> Hi, I'm sorry for asking a really stupid question, but it's kind of urgent
> and I can't find the answer (and I'm more familiar with linux as I am with
> FreeBSD). At this moment I have a FreeBSD 2.2.6 system running which is
> consuming 185M of swapspace... but it doesn't do anything... How can I
> swapoff this swapspace so it'll clear this ?
> 
> 
> Arjan
> 
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