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(operating system)swap space - An area of disk (e.g. a swap file) used to store the state of a process that has been swapped out. Under a virtual memory system, it is the amount of swap space rather than the amount of physical memory which determines the maximum size of a single process and the maximum total size of all active processes.


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76 Organized around exam CX-310-200 and CX-310-202 objectives, this guide explains how to install the Solaris 10 operating system, set up user accounts, administer the LP print service, perform system backups, monitor swap space, manage storage volumes, and configure an NIS network.
Each workstation has 128 to 256 Mb of RAM, 200 to 400 Mb of swap space, and 2GB or 4GB disk drives.
All sorts of acceleration technology is available when lots of memory and disk for swap space is readily available -- just-in-time compilers, ahead-of-time compilers, flash compilers, etc.
 
 
 
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