Swap

Swap

A storage disc partition used to support virtual memory. Data is written to a swap partition when there is not enough main memory to store the data that a system is processing.

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Industry/Domain: Software
Category: Operating systems
Company: Red Hat
Product: Red Hat Linux 9
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