Re: Swapfile Question

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From: Bob Peirce #305
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 11:07

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In article <1992Jul16.195458.8181@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
>	I agree that it would be nice if mach implemented some form of garbage  
>collection so that the swapfile would shrink dynamically.    But it's really no  
>worse than what the other unices do.

Also, at the risk of finding out the NeXT can do this, no Unix I have
seen can shrink a file.  You can truncate them to zero, but as
desirable as it would be, you can't seem to free part of a file.  On the
surface this would seem to be a simple thing to do so maybe somebody
does it, but I haven't seen it.

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Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA         rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us         412-471-5320
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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
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Subject: Re: Swapfile Question
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