What is the main purpose of the swapper process in Unix?
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What is the main purpose of the swapper process in Unix? Swapper process has the PID 0 and I guess it is the first process that loads. Can anyone throw more light on this topic?
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It hasn't been a swapper process since the 1990s, and swapping hasn't really been used since the 1970s. Unices stopped using swapping a long time ago. They've been demand-paged operating systems for a few decades — since System V R2V5 and 4.0BSD. Th…
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