quick question: is a swap file and a paging file the same thing?

[spanky]

i'm reading about them and they are both for virtual memory. does that mean they are two names for the same thing?

 

[WarCon]

I believe they are the same.

 

[dnoyeb]

Yes they are the same thing. the swaps occur is 'pages' of memory on windows. so its called pagefile sometimes.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Well, its actually more like MS didn't want to call it a swap file because that is what Sun and BSD had already called it. So instead they called it a paging file. Its really pretty much the same thing. I give props to MS though as they added lots of dynamic rescaling of the file while in *NIX (linux, unix, etc), it is a static sized file or partition. You can manually add more swap files to those systems, but like I said, its a manual process.

Ok enough rant/rave, to anwser your question, they are the same thing.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Hey Spanky, just one more thing....How in the WORLD did you make 17528 posts in just under 2 years!!! That is outrageous! I've been here through 3 different versions of this forum (with accounts being completely wiped between the versions...in other words a LONG TIME) and I don't have anywhere near that many posts.