Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:00:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:00:16 -0400 Received: from 216-175-173-2.client.dsl.net ([216.175.173.2]:55292 "EHLO mail.fl.adelantetech.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:00:14 -0400 Subject: RE: VMM - freeing up swap space From: Jelle Foks To: Gregory Giguashvili Cc: "Linux Kernel (E-mail)" In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 18 Jun 2002 18:00:14 -0400 Message-Id: <1024437615.2891.5.camel@zoot> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1026 Lines: 25 On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 13:26, Gregory Giguashvili wrote: > >Sure. Execute `swapoff -a`, followed by `swapon -a`. This is no joke. > > Thanks. That really helped, let alone the fact that swapoff is a lengthy > operation (I can understand why), the resulting memory was even less than > the original RAM+swap size. I guess that happened because of memory > rearrangements when moving it up to RAM. Or mmapped files for which pages had been read into memory, but were freed to make room for your large data allocations. Jelle > - > 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/ - 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/