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- From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Subject: Re: will this work for the swapfile growth problem?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.073436.2833@weyrich.UUCP>
- Sender: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
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- Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
- References: <By37LD.EKF@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 07:34:36 GMT
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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?
- >
-
- The main drawback is that you can't [I think] delete the SWAPPER.DAT file
- while the system is using it [while you are booted from the hard disk].
-
- But you can edit the config.sys to specify a different path for the swap
- file and reboot -- then you can delete the old one.
-
- orville
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