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From: schock@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Craig Schock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How do I shrink the swapfile (easily...)
Summary: Swapfile Woes...
Message-ID: <2558@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 90 21:22:40 GMT
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	Last week, our swapfile decided to grow to 41 megs (from 21 megs).
The reason it did this hasn't yet been determined, but this occurrance 
made me come up with some way of shrinking the file.  I rebooted the 
system (single user) and I killed off some of the unnecessary processes.
I then executed:

	mkfile 20M /private/vm/swapfile

and this seemed to do the trick.  

	What I want to know is ... Is there an EASIER way to bring
the swapfile back down to size?  Since we are on a 330 Meg HD with only 
58 Megs free a jump in the size of the swapfile from 21 megs to 41 megs
can cause some problems.  Most VM systems I've worked with don't have a
"growing" swapfile so this little incident came as a little of a shock.
 
Thanks in advance

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Craig Schock                               schock@cpsc.UCalgary.CA
University of Calgary  (More reliable ->)  schock@flip.cpsc.UCalgary.CA
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