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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!unruh
  2. From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
  4. Subject: Re: Does anyone know...Swap File
  5. Date: 6 Jan 1993 04:24:17 GMT
  6. Organization: The University of British Columbia
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  8. Distribution: world
  9. Message-ID: <1idmthINN43o@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
  10. References: <T6s8VB1w165w@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca> <1992Dec23.172652.3133@umr.edu> <93004.164712ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> <1993Jan4.185513.15544@apgea.army.mil> <Gary.Woodman.905.726283143@anu.edu.au>
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.ubc.ca
  12.  
  13. Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman) writes:
  14.  
  15. >No. You cannot do either of these things; OS/2 must have a swapfile, and it 
  16. >is exactly the size it's required to be.
  17.  
  18. Well, mine seems to be rather larger most of the time than it needs to
  19. be ( grows, doesn't shrink when the programs are unloaded, and then
  20. grows again even if the same progs are reloaded- taht sort of ratchet
  21. leads to a rather large swap).
  22.