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From: slh@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
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Subject: Re: SWAPPER.DAT
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Date: 23 May 91 03:54:27 GMT
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In article <9105231121.AA92775@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org> Mark_Lehrer@f535.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Mark Lehrer) writes:
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|   One quick question - is it safe to just delete SWAPPER.DAT?  It has grown 
|to 5 meg on my system with 8 meg RAM that hasn't swapped to disk for months. 

	I do it, especially if it has gotten big and I'm using dos
	instead of os/2.
	I do it after booting up in dos, probably a lot faster than
	booting the install disk, though if it's on an hpfs partition,
	I guess you have to do it that way.
	I don't know if os/2 will recreate it if it doesn't need to swap
	(it shouldn't), but it certainly won't be as large.
	Also check the memman, swappath or one of those lines in your
	config.sys to see how much disk space you're forcing to be kept
	free on your swap partition.