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Tag Archives: Memory management
Q: What does “swap memory” do that physical RAM memory in a computer can’t do?
A: It can be bigger. Swap files on the computer’s hard drive are there for when you don’t have enough physical RAM, so the operating systems swaps data out of RAM space and writes a file on storage, to free … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Questions and Answers, Memory, Q&A
Tagged Hard Drive, Memory management, RAM, SSD, Swap File, Virtual Memory
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