What are the processes that are not bothered by the
swapper? Give Reason.



What are the processes that are not bothered by the swapper? Give Reason...

Answer / praveen

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.

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