Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 02:31:05 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Way to flush swap Message-ID: <199606170931.CAA07012@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 16 Jun 96 14:53:43 %2B0200. <Pine.BSI.3.93.960616144928.1586e-100000@chain.iafrica.com>
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>Does anyone out there have a solution to flushing swap, besides for
>rebooting the machine, buying more ram or increasing the size of the swap
>partition ?
Buy another disk and add a second swap partition. Unfortunately, you
won't get much extra performance since you're running IDE, but you
might get a little. With SCSI and its asynchronous nature, you can
get a big performance improvement (when swapping, of course) by
spreading swap over several drives.
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