Swap partition help

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Take a look at this thread, it has some good tips and useful information:

Swap & Swappiness Explained

------------------ What is SWAP? ------------------- A: SWAP: is a backup for DRAM. SWAPPING: Is the action of moving DRAM file's to your Hard drive. ---- How SWAP works ---- SWAP is a dedicated partition/file (space), created to assist the physical memory (DRAM). When the DRAM is full, or reaches the set parameters, the kernel will move (called: "Swapping in" or "Paging in") idle App (Data), to the SWAP space. This action frees up the DRAM. Thus running the Priority Process/Data neede…