[NTLUG:Discuss] Cleaning Swap Partition

[Jay F. Cox]

"Bobby L. Sanders" wrote:
> 
> Help!
> 
> My swap partition is not "releasing" old swap files, i.e. there
> appear to be about 89 megs that are living there completely and
> leaving only about 28 megs for applications to use.  I think this
> first occurred when I used ImageMagick.  Now Netscape wants to
> load up the rest of the swap and then grind to a halt.  The
> computer actually locked and I had to shut it down!  (First time
> ever in about 3 years.)  When I rebooted, I still found the swap
> partition with 89 megs on it.
> 
> Is this normal?  Is there anyway to "flush" the swap partition?

I guess use mkswap to reformat your swap partition. of course you'd
want to turn swaping off before you did so. 
man swapoff  

or just boot of another disk or something then format that partition.

However, I would want to make sure what you are thinking is happening
is really happening before you consider doing anything with the 
swap partition.
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