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From: finger@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Jay Finger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: How to get the swapfile to shrink
Message-ID: <1990Dec31.004956.3152@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 31 Dec 90 00:49:56 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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I've modified "/private/etc/swaptab" to use specify a 4-Meg low water
mark, hoping to conserve some precious space on this 105meg machine.
The swapfile does get initialized to 4Meg, and expands as processes are
started, but as processes are shut down it usually doesn't shrink, and
when it does, then only by a couple of K.

Am I expecting something unreasonable, trying to do this the wrong way,
or is the only way to shrink the swapfile to reboot the machine?
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