RAM is speeder than HD, a swap area cannot compete with ram speed
swap area is usefull only for the OS, or for temporany files (like extracting a rar file), but in no way it can be used as RAM
OS can swap portion of ram to swap area, just if ram is full and then reswap it to ram to be processed, but you have a down in efficence, so programs (like games) that need 1GB ram cannot run if you have 512MB also if you have 2GB of swap area
that's not a consideration, that are the fact
(it was part of an exame at the university in witch I got the maximum vote)
swap area is usefull only for the OS, or for temporany files (like extracting a rar file), but in no way it can be used as RAM
OS can swap portion of ram to swap area, just if ram is full and then reswap it to ram to be processed, but you have a down in efficence, so programs (like games) that need 1GB ram cannot run if you have 512MB also if you have 2GB of swap area
that's not a consideration, that are the fact
