swapspace

[Liam Proven]

On 18 October 2014 10:28, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>   Perhaps it is fine and swap space will be made
> available if it is needed, I don't know.  Is there a simple way of
> using up lots of ram so to force it to swap?


That's the key. It does demand paging. Use lots of RAM -- open a
shit-ton of big images in Firefox* -- and it will grow the file.
Warning: it's slow to shrink it again.

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