Re: purging swap disk

2001-12-12 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , December 12, Brian Stults did write: > Is there a way to purge the swap disk? When I run something like > win4lin, it can sometimes take up a lot of disk swap. When I close the > program, the swap space still appears to be occupied. It's mostly an > annoyance, and probably doesn't affe

Re: purging swap disk

2001-12-12 Thread Paolo Falcone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Stults wrote: >Is there a way to purge the swap disk? When I run something like >win4lin, it can sometimes take up a lot of disk swap. When I close the >program, the swap space still appears to be occupied. It's mostly an >annoyance, and pro

Re: purging swap disk

2001-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:50:43AM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: > Is there a way to purge the swap disk? When I run something like > win4lin, it can sometimes take up a lot of disk swap. When I close the > program, the swap space still appears to be occupied. It's mostly an > annoyance, and probab

Re: purging swap disk

2001-12-12 Thread Casper Gielen
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:50:43AM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: > Is there a way to purge the swap disk? When I run something like > win4lin, it can sometimes take up a lot of disk swap. When I close the > program, the swap space still appears to be occupied. It's mostly an > > -Brian Wha

Re: purging swap disk

2001-12-12 Thread Steffan Baron
One possible way to achieve this is to do a 'swapoff' followed by a 'swapon' . ;) Gruss Steffan On Wed, Dec 12, 2001, Brian Stults wrote: > >Is there a way to purge the swap disk? When I run something like >win4lin, it can sometimes take up a lot of disk swap. When I close the >program, t

purging swap disk

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Stults
Is there a way to purge the swap disk? When I run something like win4lin, it can sometimes take up a lot of disk swap. When I close the program, the swap space still appears to be occupied. It's mostly an annoyance, and probably doesn't affect anything. However, it seems that perhaps it would b