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From: smithw@physc1.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How do I shrink the swapfile (easily...)
Message-ID: <32smithw@physc1.byu.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 90 02:14:50 GMT
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eps@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>The swapfile grew to 71 megabytes
  I frequently run Mathematica stuff that takes upward of 100MB of
swap and the system is virtually dead until I can reboot. ('course I
only have an OD only system with the fancy files stripped off).
  Somebody (Avie?) from NeXT explained why the swapfile grows like this
(never shrinks until reboot) last fall. It's probably on the
archives somewhere.
  I have 16 meg ram and things still crawl when I open a big
Mathematica file. "Serious" Mathematica stuff is just plain slow
on the NeXT.  I'm still hoping for Maple with a good NeXT front
end.