RE: What uses swap file?

From: Deshpande, Kirti <kirti.deshpande_at_verizon.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 13:27:07 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00598D5D.20030514132707@fatcity.com>

SWAP is used by the Operating System.
Almost all OSs today, follow a 'Virtual Memory' model. The swap area on disk supplements the actual physical memory.  

• Kirti

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SunOS 5.8, Oracle 8.1.7
top:
Memory: 3072 real, 49M free, 4231M swap in use, 131M swap free

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What utility is it possible to look that uses a file? Like Task Manager in Win2K?  

Thanks
Ed

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