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- From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Swapfile Question
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.110720.3224@investor.pgh.pa.us>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 11:07:20 GMT
- References: <9kuyNB2w165w@midiline.la.ca.us> <1992Jul16.195458.8181@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
- Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
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- In article <1992Jul16.195458.8181@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
- > I agree that it would be nice if mach implemented some form of garbage
- >collection so that the swapfile would shrink dynamically. But it's really no
- >worse than what the other unices do.
-
- Also, at the risk of finding out the NeXT can do this, no Unix I have
- seen can shrink a file. You can truncate them to zero, but as
- desirable as it would be, you can't seem to free part of a file. On the
- surface this would seem to be a simple thing to do so maybe somebody
- does it, but I haven't seen it.
-
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