How does it work?
what's the diffrence between VRM in win / in lin?


Sorry for questions spamage, I'm just curious these days, and I take most of my day to be better @ linux.

The purpose of swap, as you call it VRM is about the same in windows and linux form a big picture point of view. Both provide "more memory" than what is installed. There are differences however. In windows, the file by default, unless you change it, is just a file on your "C" drive. In Linux, most distors will create a swap partition, just for the use of the system. It can be a single partition, or you can ( as the system administrator at install time ) create more than one swap partition, they can be on more than one disk as well. The swap partitions in linux are not visible to the user, as the swap file is in windows. It also uses a different file system than the rest of the system. The recommended swap size is twice the install ram in linux. You can make it bigger, but generally one that is two times the installed ram works well. Windows by default will grab as much space as it can, although you can control it as a user. I just love the " are you sure you know what your doing message MS dumps out..."

Hope this helps.

thanks very much...

well I knew about swap... but didn't realize it was the VRM here :S


Thanks bro.