UNIX Programming and Technical

Q. How the Swapper works?

A. The swapper is the only process that swaps the processes. The Swapper operates only in the Kernel mode and it does not uses System calls instead it uses internal Kernel functions for swapping. It is the archetype of all kernel process.

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What is Expansion swap? Q. What are the processes that are not bothered by the swapper? Give Reason.

A. Zombie process: They do not take any up physical memory.
Processes locked in memories that are updating the region of the process.
Kernel swaps only the sleeping processes rather than the ready-to-run processes, as they have the higher probability of being scheduled than the Sleeping processes