Re: VMM - freeing up swap space

Austin Gonyou (austin@digitalroadkill.net)
18 Jun 2002 11:04:51 -0500


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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