I periodically check swap usage, and run: sudo swapoff -a; sudo swapon -a; This will force anything in swap (on disk) back into RAM. Jeff On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Steve Trapp <stevetrapp at comcast.net> wrote: > Aha. I tried 'man swap' but didn't think of 'swapon'. My google search was > not > very productive, so I am thankful of your information! -Steve > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 07:16:16PM +0000, Iznogoud wrote: > > > > > > For GNU/Linux, how do you turn swap off and how do you turn in back on > again? > > > > > > > Here is the top of the manual page: > > > > > > NAME > > swapon, swapoff - enable/disable devices and files for paging and > swap- > > ping > > > > SYNOPSIS > > /sbin/swapon [-h -V] > > /sbin/swapon -a [-v] [-e] > > /sbin/swapon [-v] [-p priority] specialfile ... > > /sbin/swapon [-s] > > /sbin/swapoff [-h -V] > > /sbin/swapoff -a > > /sbin/swapoff specialfile ... > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- > Name: Steve Trapp > Location: Just east of the Missippi River > Email-address: stevetrapp<AT>comcast<DOT>net > Homepage: comcast DROPPED ALL HOMEPAGES--Where do I put my PGP public key > now? > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Jeff Chapin President, CedarLug, retired President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" President, UNI Scuba Club Senator, NISG, retired -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20170918/5de89c0e/attachment.html>