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There is no actual swapping in the modern kernels. Nowadays, it is paging, when the kernel pages out individual unused memory pages, not entire processes, so it
by man8alexd 8mo ago
There is no actual swapping in the modern kernels. Nowadays, it is paging, when the kernel pages out individual unused memory pages, not entire processes, so it keeps all non-blocked processes running, but only necessary memory pages in the memory.