Swap space
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Swap space is the term used to describe an area of disk (e.g. a swap file) used to store the state of a process that has been swapped out. Under a virtual memory system, it is the amount of swap space rather than the amount of physical memory which determines the maximum size of a single process and the maximum total size of all active processes. Occasionally, it will also be referred to as the "backing store".
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- SwapFs driver that can be used to save the paging file of Windows on a swap partition of Linux.
- This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is licensed under the GFDL.
