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From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Pagedaemon
Keywords: swapping
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Date: 10 Dec 87 23:44:51 GMT
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Reply-To: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
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This is probably a very simple question, but our resident UNIX guru couldn't
come up with an answer.  It has to do with the "pagedaemon" process.  I was
doing a ps -aux one day and noticed that although our pagedaemon's total
process size is 512K, none of it is resident in main memory.  Am I mistaken
in assuming that the page daemon is what handles page swapping?  If so, how
on Earth does it ever get swapped in from disk to swap things in from disk?
That seems like an awfully strange setup to me.  Any answers would be
greatly appreciated.

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