Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265109AbUFHM1m (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:27:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265112AbUFHM1m (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:27:42 -0400 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:43216 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265109AbUFHM1l (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:27:41 -0400 Message-Id: <200406080245.i582jSSp022846@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> To: Hal Nine cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Flushing the swap In-Reply-To: Message from Hal Nine of "Mon, 07 Jun 2004 18:34:59 -0400." <200406072234.SAA07853@grex.cyberspace.org> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.0.4; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 14) Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 22:45:27 -0400 From: Horst von Brand Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 810 Lines: 18 Hal Nine said: > Is there any way of making linux flush out all pages out of swap > space? I want to have 0K of used swap space. What for? If they don't fit into RAM (likely, as swap is essentially "RAM overflow"), you are toast anyway. You might try swapoff(8)... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/