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Date:      Mon, 17 Jun 1996 16:01:47 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com>
To:        "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@lynx.its.unimelb.edu.au>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Way to flush swap 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.93.960617160051.280V-100000@chain.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960617212721.8241A-100000@lynx.its.unimelb.edu.au>

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On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:

>Is it actually a problem?  I thought that some things were left in swap 
>in case they were needed later, e.g. shared library sort of stuff.
>They get flushed when swap is needed for other things.

Not in my case. Swap utilisation stays high, and when I do a make
world, more often than not the swap utilisation increases (as you
would expect) and then stops due to lack of swap.

i.e. to do a make world after using my machine for a reasonable amount
of time, I have to reboot/restart.

Regards,
Khetan Gajjar.

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