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    Updated: Oct 25, 2024
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    What is the difference between the virtual memory and swap memory?
    please explain any one ...........................
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  • Reya

    Member • Jan 23, 2011

    Virtual memory is the separation of logical memory from physical memory.Only one part of the program needs to be in memory for execution.

    I guess both are same!Virtual memory is used in windows whereas the term swap space is used in linux,
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  • eternalthinker

    Member • Jan 24, 2011

    As praveena said, they're more or less the same.

    Virtual memory is the concept of using hard disk space for run time storage and disguising it as physical memory.

    Swap is rather the term we use to represent the actual space in hard disk which is used for this.

    In windows, this is a swap file in C: drive(I forgot it's name!),
    and in most of the modern Linux distros, you'll be asked to reserve an entire swap partition for this purpose.
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  • Reya

    Member • Jan 24, 2011

    Windows 3.11 is a hidden file created by Windows 3.x used as a virtual memory swap file😀
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