Swap Partition

This is the disk partition used for a system swap area. If your swap area is too small, the HP-UX kernel reserves some real memory to make sure it never "starves" for memory. This memory reservation takes away memory from user applications. To avoid this, set up a swap area that is the size of your RAM (either as a dedicated disk partition or through SAM). For example, if you have 2GB of RAM, use a 2GB swap area.

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