swapout(1)

swapout1

Usage

swapout [-V] [--version] [megabytes]

Overview

swapout (ftape-tools) is a simple program whose sole purpose is to allocate a large chunk of RAM, dirty it by touching the first byte of each page (see `man 2 getpagesize') and finally release the allocated chunk to the system.

The optional parameter "megabytes" defaults to 5

Notes

This manual page has been generated using the help2man script and some minor corrections were added. It was done by Agustin Martin Domingo <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

From ftape-util 1:1.09.2002.03.21-0.3 in Debian 3.1 (Sarge). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.