From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 22 08:59:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA13369 for current-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 08:59:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.HeadCandy.com (root@mindbender.headcandy.com [199.238.225.168]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA13364 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 08:59:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.HeadCandy.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA03361; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 08:57:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199607221557.IAA03361@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.HeadCandy.com: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Developer cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: turing off swap interleaving In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 22 Jul 96 13:31:39 +0100. Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 08:57:38 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Also I managed to delete the swap file after swapping on it! I think it >didn`t free up the space on the file system however. Is this safe or not? Uh, have you ever used Unix before? ;-) As long as the kernel has a file descriptor open on the file, it still exists. You merely removed the last named reference to it on the disk. Once the kernel closes the last reference to the file, it will see that there are no remaining links to it, and remove it completely. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------