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Subject: Re: VMM - freeing up swap space
From: Austin Gonyou <austin@digitalroadkill.net>
To: Gregory Giguashvili <Gregoryg@ParadigmGeo.com>
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The -AA kernels have fixes for this so it actually reclaims the swap and
*cached* memory as well. 

On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 10:56, Gregory Giguashvili wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Running an application allocating huge amounts of memory would push some
> data from RAM to swap area. After the application terminates, swap area is
> usually still occupied. 
> 
> Is there any way to clean up the swap area by pushing the data back to RAM?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Giga
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> Gregory Giguashvili
> Senior Software Engineer
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