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- From: gonorth@cs.montana.edu (Spicher)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Incredible Growing Swapfile problem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.011334.15162@coe.montana.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 01:13:34 GMT
- Article-I.D.: coe.1992Nov13.011334.15162
- References: <BxL1G2.FCx@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <4356@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717
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- In article <4356@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU> rvaniwaa@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Ronald J. Vaniwaarden) writes:
- >In article <BxL1G2.FCx@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> bradshaw@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jonathan Bradshaw) writes:
- >>Well, it seems after the CSD I know how the wonderful incredible growing
- >>swapfile problem and deleting the swapfile doesn't work. Nothing seems to
- >>be mentioned in the README file. The problem isn't that it grows, at this
- >>time I am running Os/2 Kermit ONLY and its 8MB. It started at 4mb. If I close
- >>and reopen application it grows rather than reusing the swapfile. It will
- >>continue until there is 2mb left on the drive (at 13mb) in my 8mb machine.
- >>I was fine under the GA and Beta.
- >>
- >
- >I am experiencing exactly the same problem. I have 16mb of ram and have my
- >swapfile start at 1mb. After going for about two hours with several programms
- >starting and ending, I had a swapfile at about 10mb. I closed _all_
- >applications except for pmshell (two instances) and harderr. I left the
- >computer for an hour while I went to the store and the swapfile was still
- >at the same size. At times the swapfile will shrink but only very slightly.
- >I also was fine before the CSD and had no problems with GA+swapfile patch.
- >I have deleted the swapfile many times but to no avail... Someone help us
- >PLEASE!!!!!
- >
- >--Ronald Van Iwaarden
- >
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- Will IBM be able to put out another fix to cure this?
-
- Daron Spicher
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