Re: VM Vs Swap Space

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Thu Oct 07 2004 - 14:41:11 EST


On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Ankit Jain wrote:

> (2) is it correct to use the term interchangeably

No. Virtual memory can mean a lot of other things, including
the address space of individual processes, or the kernel
address space.

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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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