Swap

Swapping is when a computer exchanges the location of memory pages between physical RAM and harddisk space.

tweedleburg:~/Downloads # swapon -s
Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
tweedleburg:~/Downloads # swapon /tmp/swap 

Note

This command did not work with Knoppix 7.02.

tweedleburg:~/Downloads # swapon -s
Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
/tmp/swap                               file            1048572 0       -1