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- From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: how can I tell what's swapped out and reclaim my swap file?
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:05:46 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University
- Lines: 28
- Message-ID: <sal8.240.724187146@po.cwru.edu>
- References: <APOULSEN.92Dec11000207@marinara.mit.edu>
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- In article <APOULSEN.92Dec11000207@marinara.mit.edu> apoulsen@athena.mit.edu (Andy Poulsen) writes:
- >From: apoulsen@athena.mit.edu (Andy Poulsen)
- >Subject: how can I tell what's swapped out and reclaim my swap file?
- >Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 05:02:15 GMT
- >hi,
- >
- >i just make a mistake and opened a second windows application (a real
- >hog) and my machine swapped like crazy and started it up. i killed the
- >app, but my swapfile is now 15M, and i wanna get it back. is there any
- >way to tell what's been swapped out so i can go back to that program and
- >make it "fresh" again so that the swap file will shrink? i've tried
- >going to all my progs on the window list, but that doesn't seem to do
- >the trick. it just seems absurd to have a 15M swap file on a machine
- >with 16M of ram.... especially since i am close to needing the disk
- >space....
-
- When you shutdown and restart the machine it should shrink back down. It
- will sometimes shrink all on its own if you just let the machine sit for a
- while...as long as there are no non-OS2 processes running. My machine stays
- on all the time (last powerup was 4 months ago) and the swapfile is usually
- back down to 4M in the morning...
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