Whats are the disadvantages of swapping in operating system?
What can be the disadvantages of swapping in the operating system?
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rishi0922Swapping is a mechanism in which a process can be swapped temporarily out of memory to a backing storage and then brought back into memory for continued execution.
The operating system copies as much data as possible into main memory, and leaves the rest on the disk. When the operating system needs data from the disk, it exchanges a portion of data in main memory with a portion of data on the disk.
I think this is the very good advantage in operating system.. -
LeoAt very practicle say is that swapping doesn't really have any disadvantage.
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Manish GoyalI think it depends on efficiency of algorithm
If we consider demand paging then it may lead to increase in page faults
but if we consider page replacement algorithms then there will be less page faults
overall we should talk about disadvantage of algorithm we are using not swapping . -
Morningdot HabluFrom the posts it looks like it is thrashing which is the process of using virtual memory.
Am i correct guys ?
It is right to say that there in no effective disadvantages of swapping.
The only disadvantage of swapping occurs if your system has to rely too heavily on virtual memory, you will notice a significant performance drop.
But this disadvantages doesn't considered in todays PC(which came with at least 1 or 2 GB RAM). -
Leo
I agree with you.mohit007kumar00From the posts it looks like it is thrashing which is the process of using virtual memory.
Am i correct guys ?
It is right to say that there in no effective disadvantages of swapping.
The only disadvantage of swapping occurs if your system has to rely too heavily on virtual memory, you will notice a significant performance drop.
But this disadvantages doesn't considered in todays PC(which came with at least 1 or 2 GB RAM). -
Leon LipschitzQuestion
If you activate page swopping is there not the disadvantage that if the power goes off you will loose all the information that you a r e working o -
pratap singh, upendra
Of course, that is the limitation (not a disadvantage though)Leon LipschitzQuestion
If you activate page swopping is there not the disadvantage that if the power goes off you will loose all the information that you a r e working o
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