x83.net » swap http://www.x83.net Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:53:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to clear SWAP http://www.x83.net/how-to-clear-swap/ http://www.x83.net/how-to-clear-swap/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:28:00 +0000 Giany http://www.x83.net/?p=736 It happens for swap to be used from time to time :

root@servcorp:~# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 4011 759 3252 0 4 53
-/+ buffers/cache: 702 3309
Swap: 8191 15 8176

To clear the swap run :

root@servcorp:~# swapoff -a && swapon -a

And free shows :

root@servcorp:~# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 4011 746 3265 0 4 55
-/+ buffers/cache: 686 3325
Swap: 8191 0 8191

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[root@host ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=1048576
1048576+0 records in
1048576+0 records out
[root@host ~]# sync
[root@host ~]# mkswap /swapfile
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1073737 kB
[root@host ~]# swapon /swapfile
[root@host ~]# echo “/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0″ >> /etc/fstab

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