Author : Amandeep Singh, Gulshan Goyal and Jasneet Kaur

Swap space is storage space on any storage media (like a disk or flash storage) which is designed to reduce the scope of large disk optimization. The pages are swapped out to swap space from RAM periodically with different page replacement policies (LRU, FIFO, Workset etc.). In present systems, disk or flash drives are used to design swap space. Present paper reviews the design of swap space on disk and flash media. Based on the review, MFURVSS (Most Frequent Used Page Replacement to Volatile Swap Space) approach is proposed to design a volatile swap space using main memory. This approach will be beneficial to reduce the number of page faults as compared to traditional approaches.

Keywords: The Swap Space, MFURVSS, Page Replacement, Regular Segment, Swap Segment.

Article published in International Journal of Current  Engineering  and Technology, Vol.4,No.3 (June- 2014)