Swap space does not inherently slow down your system. In fact, not having swap space doesn't mean you won't swap pages. It merely means that Linux has fewer choices about what RAM can be reused when a ...

When your Linux server starts feeling sluggish, you might benefit from looking at your swap space and gauging whether it’s adequately sized for your system’s workload. Fortunately, Linux has ...

One of the first things new Linux users often get confused about is the need to create a disk partition for swap space. After all, neither Windows nor Mac OS X make you do any such thing, what’s ...

I'm going to get a 100GB hard drive Saturday and I was thinking of dividing it up so I could put multiple versions of linux on it. I want to put just one swap file on the front of the drive and ...

Okay here's one for you guys. Installing Redhat 7, and when I go to make a swap partition with disk druid, it informes me that the largest swap file size I can have is 2GB. Why is that, and how ...