Swap

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Swapping is when a computer exchanges the location of memory pages between physical RAM and harddisk space.

tweedleburg:~/Downloads # swapon -s
Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
tweedleburg:~/Downloads # swapon /tmp/swap 
tweedleburg:~/Downloads # swapon -s
Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
/tmp/swap                               file            1048572 0       -1