In That case, also. There is a implicit Swap area and a Explicit area.
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:07:21 -0400, Pratik Solanki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:37:40 +0100 (BST), Ankit Jain > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well if we dont have a swap area then shall i say my > > system dosent have virtual memory > > No. > > > is this correct? because i feel even if this swap area > > is not there then also virtual memory concept exists? > > Virtual memory is the reason why applications can think they have 4GB > of memory while your physical machine might actually have only 32MB. > You don't need to have swap in order to have virtual memory, although > its very advantageous to have swap with VM. > > Virtual memory maps the viurtual pages (from 0 to 4GB) to actually > physical memory pages (from 0 to however much RAM you have). Swapping > is the process of using the disk to store physical memory pages when > they are not in use, and then restoring them when an application > accesses them. > > Pratik. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
