We have received several individual reports of swap file bloating, ranging from minor dips in storage capacity to complete crippling of the system's main volume. Based on the information we have so ...

I was planning on setting my swap partition to another HD, as I have read it can greatly benefit the speed of the computer. I also read that the swap HD will need to be on a seperate controller in ...

I'm going to get a 100GB hard drive Saturday and I was thinking of dividing it up so I could put multiple versions of linux on it. I want to put just one swap file on the front of the drive and let ...

A disk file used to temporarily save a program or part of a program running in memory. See Windows swap file. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

Nathan Champagne reports that previously noted problems with bloated swap files stretch back to the NextSTEP operating system, which Apple used as a basis for Mac OS X: "I had a similar problem using ...

Linux is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, there’s so much you can configure. On the other hand, there’s so much you can configure. It is sometimes hard to know just what you should do to get the ...