[ale] top and SWAP

[John Wells]

----- "JK" <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
> True. But "swapped out" is a logical concept -- for a particular
> virtual page to be "swapped out" just means that the page is
> not physically present in RAM, and that *something* has to
> be done to acquire the page if it is accessed.  It does not
> necessarily mean that a physical page has been written out
> to a swap partition.
> 
> (This is just a fact about the Linux VM system, not a
> universal truth about swapping.)

But on your typical system, where can it go aside from RAM and swap partitions?