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- From: simsong@next.cambridge.ma.us (Simson L. Garfinkel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.145232.8262@next.cambridge.ma.us>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 14:52:32 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.041747.10597@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
- Sender: simsong@next.cambridge.ma.us
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- Organization: Simson Garfinkel and Associates, Inc.
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- In article <1992Sep7.041747.10597@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
- jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw writes:
- > I ran Movie.
- > then I found I was running out of disk space.
- > So I checked /private/vm/swapfile with 'ls -l', and found:
- >
- > -rw------t 1 root 44195840 Sep 7 12:12 swapfile
- >
- > Obviously the swapfile eat up my disk space.
- > How can make it smaller?
- > (reboot is the last solution I want)
-
- 1. Don't run programs that need lots of VM.
- 2. Reboot.
-
- (These swapfile questions remind me of a friend after he just learned to drive.
- "Why do I always have to buy gas?" he asked.)
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- ................................................................simson
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