Hi everyone.

How do Linux and Windows organize their swap space?

Can anyone help me answer the above question. I will be really gratefull if anyone helps me. I have searched the forum but couldn't find the asnwer to the above question. Please help me. Thanks in advance.

regards
Mehmet

I am sorry, I do not know what you mean by organize swap space? Could you be more discriptive regarding what you want to accomplish, it will likely improve your chances of getting a satisfactory answer.

To be hones thats how the question was given to me. Maybe how swap space works in Linux and Windows i guess. I searched all over the web, but couldn't find anything.

What about Linux

fair enough, the link above for windows swap discuss the option to allow windows to resize the swap file for windows on the fly. This brings up a noteable diffrence between how windows and linux normally handle swap space. On a windows box, it will simply create a file on the primary partition (although you can modify this behavior and create additional swap files on extra drives if you choose to do so).

In Linux, it is generally more of a fixed item. For the most part linux use partitions that are dedicated for swap space. When making the choice for how big to set up your swap space when making this partition going with twice the size of the amount of RAM that your box has (or intends to have), is not a bad starting point.

But this information is more along the lines of defining you swap space vice orginizing it. But I hope that it helps you.

Thankyou so much kvedaa, that was really helpful.

Here is another question:

Under what circumstances programmed I/O might be used?

And this is what i wrote:

A programmed I/O can be used for game peripherals. For example, a game pad is used to send signals to the game to perform certain actions in the game, which is processed by the CPU. When the signal is sent, the instruction is executed and what happens is that most of the time, the CPU will be waiting for input signals from the game pad before executing the next instruction.

Do you think that is correct?

I believe so.

I just hate these questions about operating systems.