What Is The Purpose Of Swap?
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The purpose of swap is to provide the operating system with a way to manage memory more efficiently by temporarily moving parts of a program from RAM to a disk, allowing the RAM to be used for other applications. It also allows the operating system to extend the amount of virtual memory available to a program, allowing it to use more memory than what is physically available.