From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ankit Jain Subject: Re: VM Vs Swap space Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:15:15 +0100 (BST) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20041007091515.73785.qmail@web52904.mail.yahoo.com> References: <4164A287.4050207@gelm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4164A287.4050207@gelm.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: chuck@gelm.net Cc: newbie how will u differentiate virtual memory and swap area thanks ankit --- chuck gelm wrote: > Ankit Jain wrote: > > >hi > > > >if somebody can tell me that is this correct? > > > >(1)can i say that swap area created by linux is > nothign > >but virtual memory. (2)is it correct to use the > term > >interchangeably > > > >thanks > > > >ankit > > > > > (1) A swap file or swap partition can be used as > virtual memory. > (2) I am not sure. Why one would wish to use 'swap > area' > interchangeably with 'virtual memory'. > :-| > Chuck > > > ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs