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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: Way to flush swap
To: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar)
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 04:10:58 -0700 (MST)
Cc: michaelv@HeadCandy.com, hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960617122813.280J-100000@chain.iafrica.com> from "Khetan Gajjar" at Jun 17, 96 12:29:04 pm
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It seems that Khetan Gajjar said:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote:
> 
> >Buy another disk and add a second swap partition.  Unfortunately, you
> 
> I don't want to do that, and cannot afford it anyway. Besides, the
> question is how to flush the swap - not add more of it.
> 
> I have enough ram, and swap space - it's just that the swap isn't
> releasing what it's got in swap after I quit out of the programs.

I *think* this is an "undocumented feature" (?)  -- at least I
seem to recall previous versions of FBSD had this characteristic.
Perhaps someone will set the record straight??

Thx,
--don