Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size-part 2

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 08:53 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >  All this avoids the question I asked. VM processing involves paging
> > between a memory space and an address space. The question is where is
> > the address space of the process? It can't be the computer's real
> > memory because that would be the memory space. 
> 
> Now you're confusing me. What do you mean by "memory space" and "address
> space"? Paging involves (among many pther things) moving data between
> main memory and a backing store. The data belongs to the "address space"
> of a process, or possibly several processes in the case of shared pages.
> "Address space" is a logical concept meaning the range of addressable
> memory locations in the process virtual memory. I've no idea what you
> mean by "memory space" unless its the physical main memory.
> 
> poc
> 
One more thing. Let us forget about your using the term address space in
a reasonable but inappropriate way for my question. What do you think
the nature of the backing store is and where is it and how is it used?
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