On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 16:46 -0400, Martine Silbermann wrote: > Sorry if this is a dumb question but how do you force the system to > free > as many pages as it can? There are a couple of ways. One of the most realistic is to just write an app that allocates an amount memory close to the total amount resident in the system and repeatedly touches it. Then, just kill the app. -- Dave