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- From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Rebooting (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)
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- Message-ID: <dillon.0nkz@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- References: <1992Sep7.041747.10597@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw> <1992Sep7.215151.2517@metrosoft.com> <1992Sep8.105655.712@macc.wisc.edu> <1992Sep10.122306.6328@investor.pgh.pa.us>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 23:10:13 PST
- Organization: Not an Organization
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- >In article <1992Sep10.122306.6328@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:
- >>In article <1992Sep8.105655.712@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- >>Neither above poster reveals their standaloneness, but
- >
- >This is a good point. I run a standalone system and find jumping to the
- >monitor and rebooting to be very quick. I have done this to restore
- >swap space. I also use it to turn my scanner, which I do not need most
- >of the time, on and off.
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- Rebooting is NOT an acceptable solution for turnkey systems.
-
- I've tried to reproduce the problem myself by running every app in
- existance (my swap grows to 20MB) then running librarian (grows to
- 25MB), quiting, rerunning it, etc... but my swap never grows above
- 25MB.
-
- Could the original poster outline the steps he took to generate an ever
- growing swap in more detail? I'm sure that if something repeatable is
- found the NeXT folk will jump on it.
-
- I suspect it may be related to the fact that the NeXT caches text
- images (e.g. binaries) after exit and uses generous parameters for the
- cache. The NeXT also caches files after use (is the executable caching
- a subset of the filecaching or a separate mechanism?)
-
- >--
- >Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us 412-471-5320
- >venetia@investor.pgh.pa.us [NeXT Mail] !uunet.uu.net!pitt!investor!rbp [UUCP]
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