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A swap and page file are very similar. Infacts page files can be "swaps". Used for the processing system these files are important and drive the computer.
Do not touch. Remove. Or delete them.
And if your getting "error swap file or page file failure".. get you computer to the geeksquad or something.. and fast!!
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 11y agoon Mac OSX in Finder folder : /private/var/vm/sleepimage
please note : do not delete , or modify any of the contents of this folder.
the files stored here are updated by the Operating System.
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∙ 13y agoA swap file, or page file, refers to the operating system's use of the hard drive as an alternative to RAM when dealing with large programs. This method is often known as "Virtual memory".
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What is the name of the folder on the Windows 2000xp CD where the installation files stored?
In A+ Guide to Managing & Maintaining Your PC Sixth Edition, Page 59 of Chapter 2 "What an Operating System Does" You will find it says: "The data is stored in a file on the hard drive called a SWAP file or PAGE file. The Windows 2000/XP swap file is Pagefile.sys, and the Windows 9x/Me swap file is Win386.swp."
What is swapping in operating systems?
When you load a file or program, the file is stored in the random access memory (RAM). Since RAM is finite, some files cannot fit on it. These files are stored in a special section of the hard drive called the "swap file". "Swapping" is the act of using this swap file.Aswapping is a mechanism in which a process can be swapped temporarily out of memory to a backing store and then brought back into memory for continued execution.
What is the swap file called in Windows Vista xp?
the swap file is also called the page file
A virtual memory file is called a?
Swap file
What is the name of the virtual memory file in Windows XP?
It is called Page File.It is created during widows xp installation & resides on the hard drive.It is measured in MB.By default,windows xp creates a page file approx. 1.5 times size of installed RAM.
What is the swap file called in windows XP?
Paging File
During the virtual memory process the operating system moves data into a temporary storage area on the hard drive called?
swap chip
Do a swap partition contains a filesystem?
In the normal sense of a "file"system, swap is not formatted as a file system. It is formatted similar to memory or RAM.
In which file Uid and gid of a fil is stored?
This information is stored in the inode for the file.
Is the virtual memory swap file?
pagefile.sys
How do you classify ram?
Classification of RAM is a random access memory module designed to store temporary data for processing. When data is completely processed by the CPU, the data stored in RAM will be erased except for processes that need to be constantly running. If RAM is full and the CPU still needs more information to process, RAM can allocate temporary virtual memory on the hard drive known as a page file or swap file. This file and RAM constantly swap data based on the process priority until RAM space is no longer used, but the swap file still contains data that was dumped. Swap file data is erased and rewritten the next time RAM is overloaded and needs to dump data for immediate processing.
What type of partition does Linux use when it does not have enough memory?
A swap partiton because it is a dedicated partition and not a file
