RE: VM Vs Swap Space

From: Lee Revell
Date: Wed Oct 13 2004 - 23:17:03 EST


On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 19:35, David Schwartz wrote:
> > A long but basic explanation of the difference between "Virtual
> > Memory" and "Swap
> > Space" follows:
>
> One of the problems with a 'basic' explanation is that you always wind up
> leaving out something that someone else things is important. ;)
>

"Unix Internals" by Uresh Vahalia is the best book on the subject I know
of. You could never explain virtual memory in a single mailing list
thread...

Lee

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