Jun
06
2016
Chapter 13. Filesystem Features: Swap, Quotas, Usage
By abernal
Objectives
- Understand the concept of swap and quotas
- Use utilities that help manage quotas
- quotacheck
- quotaon
- quotaoff
- edquota
- quota
- Use the monitoring utilities like
- df
- du
Swap
Its a virtual memory used to help the operating system. This swap memory is often allocated on the hard disk or a different location than the actual ram memory.
The recommended size of the swap memory is equal to the size of the actual memory.
