How To Create Or Increase Swap Space In Linux | Linux Today

How To Create Or Increase Swap Space In Linux

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Jan 16, 2018

The operating system makes use of swap space when its available physical memory (RAM) is running out due to ever demanding applications. In this situation, the operating system moves the inactive pages in physical memory to swap space.

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