swap

Reminds me of 4 lessons I read about start-up exits: Don't swap your stock for another.

Hence if you swap your stock with someone else, the buyer implicitly states that your stock is worth more than theirs.

It was also getting bogged down and was starting to swap since something was chewing CPU and memory.

You're not worrying about how many registers your CPU has, or when you swap a register out to memory.

""When one of their organs fails they can just swap it out with another compatible human that's died recently!

Thankfully she was wise enough to marry a geek who promptly told her not to upgrade her iPhone 4S to iOS 6 and not to swap it out for an iPhone 5. In fact, not one person in my family will do either of those things.

If the database/proxy/whatever server is designed correctly, it'll always use just enough RAM that it won't go into swap.

650k people with some level of interaction with an online version of the book implies probably between 20k and 50k folks who would have been happy to swap their email address for a downloadable version.

With virtual memory totally disabled, a 1 GB malloc takes 1 GB physical memory even if it's not touched, you can't have swap at all, memory fragmentation kills you dead, etc.

There are only the same costs as there ever were: Cisco et al come out with a new router that puts twice as many bits through the same piece of cable and if you want those bits you pay them a fixed cost and swap out your old model for the new one, and in another few years you do it again.