swap space
<operating system> An area of disk (e.g. a swap file) used to store the
state of a process that has been swapped out. Under a virtual memory system, it
is the amount of swap space rather than the amount of physical memory which
determines the maximum size of a single process and the maximum total size of
all active processes.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-03)
Nearby terms:
swapped in « swapped out « swapping « swap space
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