All Unix systems support virtual memory, sometimes referred to simply as “VM”. With VM in service, active applications and processes on your system can reside in physical memory or space on your hard ...

Swap space can play an important role in system performance. Learn how to determine how much swap space your system has available and how much it's being used. Most of us don’t often think about swap ...

I'm going to get a 100GB hard drive Saturday and I was thinking of dividing it up so I could put multiple versions of linux on it. I want to put just one swap file on the front of the drive and let ...

We are running into memory and swap issues on a old HP UX box. Errors are popping up in DMESG about deferred swap reservation failures, though my swap file is reporting that there is 2.8 out of 4 GB ...