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Performing basic system monitoring and tuning

Managing swap space

Real memory on your system often fills with system processes or with temporary files (memfs). When this happens, the system must swap (move) idle processes to disk so that memory can be used for active processes. Swap space is typically located within one or more divisions in your UNIX partition(s).

See ``swap -- check and add swap space'' for more information.


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