On Apr 19, 2018, at 11:21 AM, John Robinson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> What is Swap? It’s also called virtual memory. When your machine needs more RAM than it has, it swaps out some of the inactive areas of RAM to the hard drive in order to free up space. When the swapped-out stuff is needed, it's read back into RAM and something else is swapped out. This means a machine with relatively small RAM can run big programs, at the expense of speed, because this swapping takes time. L^2 --- Lee Larson [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy. — Edwin Edwards New York Times, 1982
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