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6.1.2 Operating System

6.1.2.3 swapper

SunOS 4.X uses the swapper daemon, process 0, to manage virtual memory. It moves processes from physical memory to swap space when more physical memory is needed. SunOS 5.X uses the swap file system, swapfs, to manage virtual memory.


Unix System Administration - 8 AUG 1996
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