RE: VMM - freeing up swap space

From: Gregory Giguashvili (Gregoryg@ParadigmGeo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 12:26:11 EST


>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.
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