Swap space can play an important role in system performance. Learn how to determine how much swap space your system has available and how much it's being used. Most of us don’t often think about swap ...

When it comes to system administration, one of the earliest decisions to be made is how to configure swap space. Many readers already are thinking they know what to do: throw in as much RAM as you can ...

All Unix systems support virtual memory, sometimes referred to simply as “VM”. With VM in service, active applications and processes on your system can reside in physical memory or space on your hard ...

We are running into memory and swap issues on a old HP UX box. Errors are popping up in DMESG about deferred swap reservation failures, though my swap file is reporting that there is 2.8 out of 4 GB ...