modifying memory usage of a program FProt 4482

John-Paul Stewart ...is there some way I can

Program version: 4.5.4 Engine version: 3.16.6

I think the latest is 4.6. I'm downloading it now. I'm using the same version on two machines, the fileserver and my home PC. The home PC hasn't had any problems, is also Fedora Core, and has 512MB RAM, but 1.5GB of swap! (Auto Disk Druid as well. Weird.) So, I'm going to try....

Thanks for the suggestion! BTW, I noticed once I did the "dd" line, my command prompt didn't return. Just carriage returned. So I did the other two lines, and then CTRL-C to return to the command prompt. Seemed to work OK, as I now have a "swapfile" file that's 600MB large. But I MAN dd and didn't see anything about entering some sub-shell when using the dd command. Did CTRL-C mess anything up, you think?

Also, while it looks like I may need to keep the swapfile file, if I want to deactivate it with swapoff, will that be all I need to type? And it'll go back to using the original "parbreastion"? I see "swaoff -a" would be bad! "swapoff swapfile" perhaps? I see the original swap in myetc-fstab, so if I just did "swapoff", that should work OK?

(Sorry for the inane questions, but I've never worked with the swapfile before, and don't want to make some stupid mistake.)

Thanks! Liam