Swap Space
In this lesson, you'll learn about swap space, the space reserved on disk for swapping pages.
We'll cover the following...
Assumptions
The first thing we will need to do is to reserve some space on the disk for moving pages back and forth. In operating systems, we generally refer to such space as swap space, because we swap pages out of memory to it and swap pages into memory from it. Thus, we will simply assume that the OS can read from and write to the swap space, in page-sized ...