Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?

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From: Gordon Van Huizen
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 21:51

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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)
> 

It's the last solution we ALL want, but alas the only solution we have...

Gordon
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From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Subject: Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?
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