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Date:      Fri, 31 Jan 1997 17:00:00 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mike Kercher <mike@synwork.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Reclaiming Swap Space
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970131165901.4014M-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970131095707.4579A-100000@synwork.com>

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On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Mike Kercher wrote:

> Is there any way of reclaiming or reinitializing the swap space on a
> FreeBSD box without rebooting?  I show about 70% of my swap space being
> used and a few megs of free RAM.

Swap is on a separate slice, so it's usage doesn't impact your
filesystems during runtime.   If you consistently run with 70% swap, you
might consider buying a new disk and adding some swap to it along with new
filesystem space.  Or backing everything up and re-disklabeling.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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