Re: swapping

  • From: Ron Thomas <RThomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jkstill@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:18:40 -0700




Please guys.  It hurts!  ROTFL!
Thanks,
Ron.

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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.

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