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Riddick
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 Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 11:11 pm Post subject: [Solved] Clearing Swap |
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If I have a lot of free Ram space and a lot of things in Swap
is there a way to unswap it back into the memory so my HDD
isn't beng written to and from all the time?
Thanks,
Riddick
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Gherald
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 11:12 pm Post subject: Re: Clearing Swap |
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| Riddick wrote: | If I have a lot of free Ram space and a lot of things in Swap
is there a way to unswap it back into the memory so my HDD
isn't beng written to and from all the time?
Thanks,
Riddick |
Wha...? That is strange. Post "free -m" |
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Riddick
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 10:13 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | bash-2.05b$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1000 989 10 0 219 248
-/+ buffers/cache: 520 479
Swap: 980 264 715
bash-2.05b$
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For example, zooming a picture into its pixels clears a lot of ram,
and tends to put things into swap, and I would just like them to be put back again. |
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Gherald
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 10:28 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1000 989 10 0 219 248
-/+ buffers/cache: 520 479
Swap: 980 264 715 |
So you have 989mb of used RAM, which is 520mb if you subtract cache, and there is 264mb of stuff in swap.
That seems fine to me... |
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bollucks
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 11:44 am Post subject: |
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Generally if stuff is swapping out there is a good reason for it. However if you still want to do it, the effect you desire will be obtained by doing this: | Code: | | swapoff -a && swapon -a |
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Riddick
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| thanks! |
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