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Article #651Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?
From: Simson L. Garfinkel
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 14:52
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 14:52
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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.) -- ................................................................simson
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!next.cambridge.ma.us!simsong 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 Reply-To: simsong@next.cambridge.ma.us Organization: Simson Garfinkel and Associates, Inc. Lines: 20