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(New page: The swap partition is a slice of the hard disk used by the operative system as memory when the computer RAM is unsufficient for the execution of the required tasks. At the price of a slown...) |
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Latest revision as of 15:57, 4 June 2008
The swap partition is a slice of the hard disk used by the operative system as memory when the computer RAM is unsufficient for the execution of the required tasks. At the price of a slowness of the operation, there is the benefit that you're able to run programs that require more memory than how is physically installed in the computer.
