Yes, swap is used to free memory for others to use. Moving data in to and out of swap takes time (read from memory, write to hard disk, vice versa, and admin overhead stuffs). If you have a lot of program battling for RAM space, you'll see a lot of disk activity. And if you have too many of this happening, you're computer will be so slow because it is waiting a lot of the the time for the swapping in/out of data to finish -- commonly referred to as 'trashing'.
----- Original Message ---- From: mary tabucan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2008 9:42:26 AM Subject: Re: [plug] making use of swap i see.. so when does my machine normally use the swap? Does my machine make use of it when my RAM gets full, am i getting it right?
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