All You Need To Know About Swap Partition In Linux
What Is Swap Space? Swap is a replacement or better say less-used alternative for RAM( Random Access Memory). Let’s say that when you have 512mb RAM and you are running a game and RAM suddenly gets full. Then what? There comes the role of Swap. The OS moves the less used background running applications to Swap partition and frees up RAM so that you can run your favorite game easily. The Swap partition is created on your hard drive....