A disk file used to temporarily save a program or part of a program running in memory. See Windows swap file. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

A disk file used by Windows for its virtual memory. A virtual memory system temporarily stores segments of the application on disk when there is not enough RAM to hold all the programs being used. The ...

Hello,<BR> I have a fairly decent background in PC hardware but someone said something in front of me yesterday that made me question the validitity of my knowledge.<BR> A tech that works with me was ...

Linux Mint 17.2. 8GB RAM. Separate encrypted /home and swap partitions. 'swappiness' set to 10. I realised that the swap partition wasn't in use (known bug apparently) so fixed it. However, I see this ...

Linux is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, there’s so much you can configure. On the other hand, there’s so much you can configure. It is sometimes hard to know just what you should do to get the ...