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  • Memory paging (redirect from Swap file)
    system copies the needed pages from a file, e.g., memory-mapped file, paging file, or a swap partition containing the page data into RAM. Anticipatory paging...
    42 KB (5,345 words) - 23:29, 11 July 2024
  • 2020. Rogerson, A.M. (2014). Detecting the work of essay mills and file swapping sites: some clues they leave behind. Semantic Scholar. S2CID 106581372...
    41 KB (4,072 words) - 15:27, 8 August 2024
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    Vim (text editor) (category Free file comparison tools)
    changes in a swap file with the ".swp" extension. This file can be used to recover after a crash. If a user tries to open a file and a swap file already exists...
    43 KB (3,430 words) - 05:44, 6 June 2024
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    Disk partitioning (category Disk file systems)
    partition for the entire filesystem and use a swap file inside the file system (like Windows) rather than a swap partition. In Solaris, partitions are sometimes...
    21 KB (2,300 words) - 15:19, 21 July 2024
  • Sticky bit (category Unix file system technology)
    memory, even when their need ends, to minimize swapping that would occur when another need arises, and the file now has to be reloaded from relatively slow...
    15 KB (1,096 words) - 17:49, 28 December 2023
  • virtual memory stored in the swap file on the hard disk, which has the added effect of reducing the number of swap file reads and writes. The software...
    13 KB (1,277 words) - 18:23, 14 August 2024
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    programming, the exclusive or swap (sometimes shortened to XOR swap) is an algorithm that uses the exclusive or bitwise operation to swap the values of two variables...
    16 KB (1,978 words) - 14:04, 22 March 2024
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    such as OS/8 or OS/12. The system would be configured to put temporary swap files on a second DECtape drive, so as to not slow down access to the main drive...
    18 KB (2,395 words) - 03:48, 27 September 2023
  • software installation, temporary files created and maintained while installing or running the software, and possible use of swap space (if RAM is insufficient)...
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    that may be potentially exploited by malicious software. Use of a swap file or swap partition is a way for the operating system to provide more memory...
    20 KB (2,386 words) - 17:48, 4 June 2024
  • Wife Swap is an American reality television series based on the British series of the same name that premiered on September 26, 2004. In the program, two...
    25 KB (2,606 words) - 11:53, 23 August 2024
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    A credit default swap (CDS) is a financial swap agreement that the seller of the CDS will compensate the buyer in the event of a debt default (by the debtor)...
    131 KB (15,192 words) - 13:37, 1 August 2024
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    and segments currently in real memory to swap files. In a swap-in, the OS reads back the data from the swap files but does not automatically read back pages...
    38 KB (4,698 words) - 00:24, 17 January 2024
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    Error message (redirect from File Not Found)
    should close some programs (to free swap file usage) and delete some files (normally temporary files, or other files after they have been backed up), or...
    14 KB (1,825 words) - 14:05, 19 July 2024
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    a file subject to modification is known, storage for the entire file may be preallocated. For example, the Microsoft Windows swap file (page file) can...
    21 KB (2,708 words) - 22:54, 3 December 2023
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    possessing a small amount of marijuana, was also not included in the prisoner swap. However, Sarah Krivanek, an American detained for a domestic violence dispute...
    54 KB (5,293 words) - 01:59, 19 August 2024
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    Defragmentation (category File system management)
    number of new files in the future. The presence of immovable system files, especially a swap file, can impede defragmentation. These files can be safely...
    28 KB (3,277 words) - 11:40, 11 August 2024
  • Partition type (category Disk file systems)
    inside a master boot record (MBR) is a byte value intended to specify the file system the partition contains or to flag special access methods used to access...
    74 KB (1,633 words) - 03:10, 16 July 2024
  • backing store in auxiliary storage and a swap file in main memory and pages that are evicted from the in-memory swap file are written to the backing store with...
    24 KB (2,658 words) - 12:45, 3 August 2024
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    whitelist (by default, it shuts down and erases data from the RAM and swap file). Users need to be logged in as root. Hephaest0s cautions users that they...
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