Mark_Lehrer@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org (Mark Lehrer) (05/18/91)
One quick question - is it safe to just delete SWAPPER.DAT? It has grown to 5 meg on my system with 8 meg RAM that hasn't swapped to disk for months. Since my drive is filling up, I wouldn't mind reclaiming 3 to 4 meg of space. If I boot from the install disk and get rid of the file, will the system re- create it? --- Maximus-CBCS v1.02-OS/2-R4 * Origin: The Akron Anomaly - 320 meg - V32bis/HST - 2 lines (1:157/535)
Joseph_Thomas@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org (Joseph Thomas) (05/19/91)
swapper.dat info is good for only one session, usually at the end of session or once a week I kill it. --- QM v1.00 * Origin: "The Silver Streak RBBS" SDS/SDN/DVNet/WinNet/DDS (1:396/15.0)
slh@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (05/23/91)
In article <9105231121.AA92775@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org> Mark_Lehrer@f535.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Mark Lehrer) writes: | | One quick question - is it safe to just delete SWAPPER.DAT? It has grown |to 5 meg on my system with 8 meg RAM that hasn't swapped to disk for months. I do it, especially if it has gotten big and I'm using dos instead of os/2. I do it after booting up in dos, probably a lot faster than booting the install disk, though if it's on an hpfs partition, I guess you have to do it that way. I don't know if os/2 will recreate it if it doesn't need to swap (it shouldn't), but it certainly won't be as large. Also check the memman, swappath or one of those lines in your config.sys to see how much disk space you're forcing to be kept free on your swap partition.
mlcohen@bcrvmpc1.vnet.ibm.com (Marc Cohen 8/443-3945) (05/23/91)
In article <9105231121.AA92775@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org> Mark_Lehrer@f535.n157.z | | One quick question - is it safe to just delete SWAPPER.DAT? It has grown |to 5 meg on my system with 8 meg RAM that hasn't swapped to disk for months. OS/2 will delete and recreate SWAPPER.DAT on each boot. In 2.0, it grows and shrinks as needed. Marc L. Cohen vnet: MLCOHEN at BCRVMPC1 internet: mlcohen@bcrvmpc1.vnet.ibm.com
wbonner@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner) (05/23/91)
In article <9105231121.AA92775@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org> Mark_Lehrer@f535.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Mark Lehrer) writes: > One quick question - is it safe to just delete SWAPPER.DAT? It has grown >to 5 meg on my system with 8 meg RAM that hasn't swapped to disk for months. >Since my drive is filling up, I wouldn't mind reclaiming 3 to 4 meg of space. I delete my swapper dat in my autoexec bat file, whenever I dual boot over to Dos. I was under the impression that the swapper gets re-sized each time you re-start OS/2. Wim -- | wbonner@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu | The Loft BBS | 27313853@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu | Currently down for the summer. | 72561.3135@CompuServe.com | USR HST Dual Standard HST/V.32
TURGUT@TREARN.BITNET (Turgut Kalfaoglu) (05/27/91)
Yes, you can delete SWAPPER.DAT safely. I erase it once it starts growing huge. It is trickier if you defined an HPFS disk for the file, you need to boot with the 'install' diskette, hit ESC to drop to OS/2 prompt, then ERASE the file. Regards, -turgut