I hope this is the correct forum... it doesn't fit snugly into any of them, really.<BR><BR>Anyway- I understand there's a difference between a "swap partition" and "virtual memory" beyond PC/Mac ...

recently my linux file server has had a large swap usage 987 mb slowing the system. <BR>swapoff -a /dev/hda3 was used <BR>swapon -a /dev/hda3 was issued about 20 mins later with noticible gain and no ...