Linux Swap Size and How to free increased swap space
What is Swapping? In modern Operating Systems, program which is accessed less frequently can be temporarily stored on disk or other media, So that this space can be used by some other program which really need it.This is called "swapping", as an area of memory that can be used by others and what this contains can be swapped or exchanged easily. Swapping is also known as "Paging". Features of Swapping: Mainly, Swapping has two important features: 1. Useful for executing the programs which need memory more than available physical memory. In these scenarios, Kernel/OS move out less used programs from main memory and move in the process that needs memory immediately to memory. 2. Any, application which loads number of pages during its startup and then don't use those ones any more. Now such unused pages can be stored in swap space, so that main memory can be freed for other programs. Swap Space in Linu...