On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Philip Guenther <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Alan Corey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Several hours ago I edited a few big images in The Gimp so there was >> some swapping. I still have about 60 megs swapped out even though >> I've got 600 megs of RAM free. I've seen this before, sometimes it'll >> stay swapped out overnight until I reboot to clear it. The Gimp was >> closed hours ago. >> >> Is there any command to cause the swap system to do a HUP or something >> to re-evaluate the situation? >> > [Stupid gmail control-enter] If the data has remained swapped out, it's because it hasn't been needed yet. Perhaps its the process memory for a daemon which isn't being connected to and doesn't need to do anything. Why would you *want* to swap that in? Philip Guenther
