Re: swapping

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:57:38 -0800
Message-ID: <bf46380501070857591d1d7d@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 13:44:45 -0500, Mladen Gogala <mgogala_at_allegientsystems.com> 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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Jared Still
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Received on Fri Jan 07 2005 - 10:58:58 CST