From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 24 10:42:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04763 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:42:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04751 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:42:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA26755; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:32:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdp26750; Mon Aug 24 17:32:51 1998 Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:32:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Arjan cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swapping off swapspace In-Reply-To: <024601bdcf6f$5b30db90$98626dc2@lisboa.nedstat.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message