On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:16:41 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: > Think of it this way: You have a house with an attic. Now the attic is > not as "efficient" as say, the middle of your living room. You have a > Christmas tree, but you only use that Christmas tree maybe once a year. > Now it's much more efficient to keep that Christmas tree in the attic > for 11 months of the year and use that reclaimed space in your living > room for.. say a coffee table. Then, when you need that Christmas tree > in December, you pull it out of the attic and maybe put the coffee table > up in the attic for a month.
And the winner of the Analogy of the Month award is... This has to be the best explanation of how swap is used I have ever read. -- Neil Bothwick All right, set phasers to deep fat fry!
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