On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Dave Wreski wrote:
> Data/processes that is in swap and not being used will stay there until it is
> used. You could very well have 32M free RAM, and still be using swap. The
> programs will get moved back into RAM if there is free RAM available when the
> program needs to be executed again.
I would like to find out how if I can "restart" the swap space...I
think there's deadwood in there. But I don't know whether there's a
utility to tell me whether any swap space currently is being wasted.
Any ideas?
TIA
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