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Which of the following is a side effect of extensive usage of swap space?

The correct answer is B. The overall system performance may degrade because of heavy hard disk use and memory. You've hit your weekly limit · resets 5am (America/New_York)

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Which of the following is a side effect of extensive usage of swap space?

Options

  • AThe root filesystem may become full because swap space is always located on the system
  • BThe overall system performance may degrade because of heavy hard disk use and memory
  • CSince processes always exist completely in either RAM or swap, regular RAM may become
  • DThe memory may become fragmented and slow down the access to memory pages. However,
  • EApplications need to restart because their virtual memory addresses change to reflect memory

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(28 responses)
  • A
    4% (1)
  • B
    75% (21)
  • D
    14% (4)
  • E
    7% (2)

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#swap space#virtual memory#system performance#memory management

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