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swap files
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Plural of swap file
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Napster users swap files they keep on their home computers.
We started to swap files on email and suddenly the first album was almost done.
Some 4m Americans swap files every day, according to Pew, an independent research organisation.
There will be numerous upgrades, growing log files, swap files, and large caches of temporary internet files.
Those who swap files reply that it is the same as borrowing a CD from a friend.
Napster replaced IRC bots with a centralized "peer-to-peer" server that allowed people to swap files directly.
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Virtual memory allows the computer to store data from RAM on an area of the hard drive known as a swap file or page file.
Bear in mind that Windows XP needs lots of disk space to store its swap file (code that temporarily doesn't fit in memory), hibernation files, temporary files, directory entries etc.
Normally, performance impact of using a swap file instead of a swap partition is negligible, as discussed in [26].
One of the reasons may be the included swap file or NTFS file system fragmentation and folder compression in the guest OS.
To keep the structure of all systems as similar as possible, a 2 GB swap file was used as swap area inside each partition, since the Windows platform does not use a separate swap partition.
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