Topic summary
Linux Swap
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Memory paging.
External links
- "Time-Sharing Supervisor Programs"(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 2012-11-01. by Michael T. Alexander in Advanced Topics in Systems Programming, University of Michigan Engineering Summer Conference 1970 (revised May 1971), compares the scheduling and resource allocation approaches, including virtual memory and paging, used in four mainframe operating systems: CP-67, TSS/360, MTS, and Multics.
- Swap Facts and questions in the Ubuntu documentation
- Windows Server - Moving Pagefile to another partition or disk by David Nudelman
- How Virtual Memory Works from HowStuffWorks.com (in fact explains only swapping concept, and not virtual memory concept)
- Linux swap space management (outdated, as the author admits)
- Guide On Optimizing Virtual Memory Speed (outdated)
- Virtual Memory Page Replacement Algorithms
- Windows XP: How to manually change the size of the virtual memory paging file
- Windows XP: Factors that may deplete the supply of paged pool memory
- SwapFs driver that can be used to save the paging file of Windows on a swap partition of Linux