Sure, that would do the trick just fine. I recall the
ftape package (when it was distributed separately from
the kernel) having a program just to do that :)
> Another thought -- if you push most of the software on the machine
> into swap by grabbing RAM with memtest, when it gets paged back in
> will it be defragmented at all?
It probably will because the buddy allocator usually does
quite a reasonable job of keeping a few large memory areas
free. Only in extreme situations it can fail and then we
have no way of restoring the memory to a 'normal' state...
cheers,
Rik -- If a Microsoft product fails, who do you sue?
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