Please guys. It hurts! ROTFL! Thanks, Ron. "To really screw up Linux you have to work at it...To really screw up Windows, you have to work ON it." "The software said to install Windows 98 or better... So I installed linux." "Windows - How do you want to be exploited today?" "Friends don't let friends use IE" jkstill@xxxxxxxxx Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx To rg mgogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Sarah_Chen@xxxxxxxxx, oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/07/05 09:57 AM Subject Re: swapping Please respond to jkstill@xxxxxxxxx On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 13:44:45 -0500, Mladen Gogala <mgogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The best command to empty swap is "init 6", ran as root. It will reboot > your system. Other then > Mladen is <gasp> incorrect. Init 6 is childs play. To truly minimize swap, modify your inittab to set the default runlevel to 6: id:6:initdefault: Guaranteed to prevent Oracle ( or anything else ) from hogging your system. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l