RE: [Cs-club] Virtual Memory

["Jon Steinert" <jon@mathfab.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cs-club-admin@lists.uwosh.edu 
> [mailto:cs-club-admin@lists.uwosh.edu] On Behalf Of Brian Behling
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:48 PM
> To: cs-club@list.acs.uwosh.edu
> Subject: [Cs-club] Virtual Memory
> 
> 
> Does any one know if Linux makes use of virtual memory?

That would be your swapspace, while it's not necessary it is a very good
idea. Linux likes to swap out old pages of ram and use your ram for
higher priority things (like buffer space)

On i386 using your usual partition tables a type 82 partition would be
your swap space, you can check for this information using cfdisk(8) or
fdisk(8). Swap spaces can be turned on manually using the swapon(8)
command in linux.

See the manpage for mkswap(8) for more information.

--hachi