Linux novices often find virtual memory mysterious, but with a grasp of the fundamental concepts, it's easy to understand. With this knowledge, you can monitor your system's memory utilization using ...

When it comes to system administration, one of the earliest decisions to be made is how to configure swap space. Many readers already are thinking they know what to do: throw in as much RAM as you can ...

I hope this is the correct forum... it doesn't fit snugly into any of them, really.<BR><BR>Anyway- I understand there's a difference between a "swap partition" and "virtual memory" beyond PC/Mac ...

Virtual memory is a valuable concept in computer architecture that allows you to run large, sophisticated programs on a computer even if it has a relatively small amount of RAM. A computer with ...

A. Brody has updated his Mac OS X Installation FAQ to include information about how too little free hard disk space (often combined with too little physical RAM!) can lead to insufficient space for ...

Editor's Note: Demand for increasing functionality and performance in systems designs continues to drive the need for more memory even as hardware engineers balance the dynamics of system capability, ...

A process’s memory regions may be paged, or swapped, to a disk file when RAM has become scarce. The virtual memory management system is responsible for this swapping. In most cases, a process doesn’t ...