Memory?

[Zordani]

How does memory work for Linux? Does it still need a swap file, or a part of the disk space converted into memory, like windows does? Or is it a completely new system?

[whcdavid]

It takes memory from physical memory and if there is no physical memory for the application, then it will try to use the SWAP space.

[Zordani]

Ok, thanks a lot for your reply. I've been doing some reading lately, and got that question answered Tommorow I'll install Ubuntu, so wish me luck everyone!

[tomandrew]

Most major programs on Linux use shared libraries to facilitate assertive functionality.For example, a KDE text editing program will use several KDE aggregate libraries (to acquiesce for alternation with added KDE components), several X libraries (to acquiesce it to affectation images and archetype and pasting), and several accepted general system libraries (to acquiesce it to accomplish basal operations).

It will amount a individual archetype of the aggregate libraries into memory and use that one archetype for every affairs that references it.

Unfortunately, a absolute representation of action anamnesis acceptance isn't simple to obtain.

[ConnectSwitch]

Linux Swap works like the Windows page file does.

[take2]

It takes memory from physical memory and if there is no physical memory for the application, then it will try to use the SWAP space.

It is actually possible to tune (or change) the swap algorithm in linux so it takes a more aggressive approach to swap management. You could have it swapping out idle processes even when there's available memory on the system. This frees up more memory for use with things such as disk caching.

[naturelover]

Linux does the swap of page files more efficiently than windows. With a 512 MB ram u can really run a application which need 2GB ram fine in Linux environment. But in windows the process slows down the performance.