May 2000
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
15h 38m
English
Chapter Syllabus
22.1 System Memory and Swap Space
22.2 Types of Swap Space
22.3Creating Swap Space
22.4 Monitoring Swap Space
22.5 Swap Space Priorities and Performance
Every system has some physical memory installed in it. The physical memory is used to hold programs and data loaded from disk drives and to perform operations on the data by using the loaded programs. The CPU can execute only those programs that are loaded into the physical memory. In a multitasking system, usually many programs are running simultaneously. There may also be many users logged in at one time and performing data operations. In a typical system, the amount of physical memory installed is not sufficient to hold all programs and ...
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