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From: Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org>
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Subject: swapoff?
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Not sure if this is offtopic here or not, so apologies ahead of time if so.

It has been many years since I used Linux, but one thing I recall is that
there was a `swapoff` command in Linux to complement the `swapon` command.
Are there any patches or plans to implement such a thing in FreeBSD?

My familiarity with the "workings" of FreeBSD is still pretty minimal. Are
there certain reasons that there currently is no way to stop paging to a
device/file?

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