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- From: rvaniwaa@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Ronald J. Vaniwaarden)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: will this work for the swapfile growth problem?
- Message-ID: <4451@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 02:19:16 GMT
- References: <By37LD.EKF@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Colorado at Denver
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- In article <By37LD.EKF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel) writes:
- >Seems like a lot of people who use the CSD experience swapfiles that grow huge.
- >How effective would this be: create a script that deletes whatever the swap
- >file is, and put that in the startup folder. Will OS/2 allocate a new one.
- >If so, what are the drawbacks to doing this?
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- One drawback is that some people (me for example) leave my computer on for
- days and weeks at a time. I don't know if this has solved many other people's
- problematic swapfile but getting rid if the background image solved my
- growing swapfile problem.
-
- --Ronald Van Iwaarden
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