Show System Swap
If your system has insufficient main memory for all the information it needs to work with, it will move pages of information to your swap area or swap entire processes to your swap area. Pages that were most recently used are kept in main memory, and those not recently used will be the first moved out of main memory.
System administrators spend a lot of time determining the right amount of swap space for their systems. Insufficient swap may prevent a system from starting additional processes, hang applications, or not permit additional users to get access to the system. Having sufficient swap prevents these problems from occurring. System administrators usually go about determining the right amount of swap by considering many ...
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