SWAP SPACE
\swˈɒp spˈe͡ɪs], \swˈɒp spˈeɪs], \s_w_ˈɒ_p s_p_ˈeɪ_s]\
Definitions of SWAP SPACE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1985 - The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
Sort: Oldest first
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
-
An area of disk (e.g. a swap file) usedto store the state of a process that has been swapped out.Under a virtual memory system, it is the amount of swapspace rather than the amount of physical memory whichdetermines the maximum size of a single process and themaximum total size of all active processes.
By Denis Howe
