Re: Pico Access.log

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Craig wrote:

> Today I did a silly thing and tried to pico the access.log file which
> was about 50Mb at the time. The machine worked overtime opening the
> file. Squid is running on Rehat 6.0. Before I tried to do this our
> used swap space was 0k, it is now at 5,248k.
>
> Is this anything to worry about?
> Will it return to zero?
> Should I restart the box?

This is nothing to worry about (assuming you have at least 6 Mb of swap
space :) - it won't necessarily return to zero, but it's not supposed to.
This just means that you tried to use more memory than your machine has
physical RAM, and so some data was swapped out to disk, which is exactly
what your swap space is for. You certainly don't need to restart the
machine; if it really bothers you, try swapoff -a, swapon -a, which will
force any data in the swap space to be swapped back in - be advised that
you should understand exactly what this means, otherwise the potential
problems could be quite surprising.

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