Swap space is a virtual memory of RAM. It is used when the amount of RAM is full. Swap space can be a dedicated swap partition, a swap file, or a combination of swap partitions and swap files.
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Should I symlink my /private/var/vm dir to another volume in OS X Lion?
So I just installed an SSD in my MBP and have been a bit concerned about running out of disk space. I noticed that /private/var/vm holds an 8.6 gb sleepimage file as well as swap files. I'd be much ...
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Moving Swapfile in Mac OS X Lion
I had previously consulted this thread when using snow leopard to move all swap to an SSD:
Moving the swapfiles to a dedicated partition in Snow Leopard
The information appears to be out of date at ...
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OS X “Swap used”
I'm a bit confused here, I'm trying to open a tab in Chrome and sometimes it takes few seconds while freezing my computer significantly so that I can't use even to bring Dock menu...
I even closed ...
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My Ubuntu laptop swap cache to disk freeze my system
My laptop is Thinkpad x220, 4G ram, harddisk is 7200rpm, installed with Ubuntu 12.04, using Unity desktop.
When I open eclipse and chrome, they eat about 2G memory. Here is the free -m result:
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Linux swap position on hdd
As far as I know hard drives are faster at the beginning of the disk. If this is true, why does Ubuntu put the swap partition to the back of the disk by default?
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How to see whats eating my swap space on linux
I have a unique situation here where a Java app I wrote is choking when it forks and creates some child processes. According to the error logs I'm seeing there is a java.lang.UNIXProcess method ...
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How can I restore a partition to its former NTFS file system?
While installing Ubuntu 11.04 I was asked to choose a swap area for better performances,
so I chose my 1T hard drive(which had only one partition).
The problem is that I did not know it will use the ...
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Installing Windows 7 onto a Raid 5 setup without an install disk. Can it be done?
I am upgrading my motherboard from a crappy dell prefab to a Foxconn Inferno Katana. I am also upgrading my ram from crappy stock dell ram to G.Skill.
I have decided to set up a raid system, now ...
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Is it possible to swap two styles in Microsoft Word or modify the document map?
I've been writing a document in Microsoft Word and have been using the default Title style as my main heading for each section and Heading 1 for my sub-sections. However Word uses Heading 1 as the ...
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Made the USB Drive as Swap Partition, Installed it, How to undo it{Ubuntu 10.10}
Well,it was a very stupid thing to do on my part, But I made a 500 GB USB connected Hard Disk as my swap partition (thinking it will be only used during installation) and installed Ubuntu10.10.
I ...
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set up permanent ramdisk in ubuntu to not using ram when is the ramdisk empty
My laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 has 8GB RAM. I added following record to /etc/fstab
tmpfs /media/ramdisk tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
What exactly does it mean? I have tested that I can ...
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RamFS over sshFS as swapspace
Guys I have to computers at office,
boxA - 256mb RD-ram with decent cpu
boxB - 1.5 gigs of ram with terrible cpu
Network cards are 10/100
I plan to sshfs into boxB and mount a ramfs of boxB as ...
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possibility of swap space has larger data in it than in my physical memory
Quoting the Deployment Guide from centos.org that is,
Swap space in Linux is used when the amount of physical memory (RAM) is full.
And that Wikipedia also said that,
the term "swap" [is ...
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Can't move OS X swap file to another folder, it keeps being recreated
So I followed these instructions to the letter ---> Moving the swapfiles to a dedicated partition in Snow Leopard
But for some reason, the swap files keep being regenerated in the same folder.
I've ...
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improving swapping strategy
I'm finding linux's swapping strategy to be somewhat less than ideal. In general I have a ton of processes running, maybe 40 or more big ones, and only end up using a few regularly. Nonetheless, I ...
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swapping or trashing with vast amounts of unmapped pagecache
I'm using kubuntu jaunty (i386 32bit), kernel 2.6.28-13-generic. I've 4Gb of RAM, of which only 3317Mb are seen by the system (I guess because of the 32bit system).
I'm seeing that the pagecache ...
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Partitioning on a multiboot laptop
I have a Fujitsu AH531 laptop with 320GB HDD.
Currently, I have 3 OS installed on it: Win7, Win8, Linux Mint14 and a bulk part for archiving my files.
Now I wanna allocate another part to commence ...
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Using a UUID to mount a swap volume causes startup to hang?
I have a mdadm RAID setup complete with a swap volume. I can use the volume for swap easy enough, but when I go to mark it as swap in the fstab, I get a system startup hang.
# /dev/md125
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Forcing suspended jobs to swap all memory in Ubuntu
Is is possible to suspend a job and force all of its memory to swap?
I've got six jobs running, and they're competing with each other for resources. So much gets wasted on system swapping that they ...
