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07.08.2008 at 09:10PM PDT, ID: 23549053
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Linux Swapping and Demand paging

Asked by jasivkumar in Linux, Linux Programming

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Hi
I have few questions in swapping and Demand paging
Please answer  for the following

1. what is the role of a file system  in  linux memory management
2 .how swapping is usually done in linux.
3.what is the difference between swapping , demand paging
4. will  the page tables of  a process will also be swapped out ?
5. If the page tables of a process  is not swapped out , where it will lie in the memory (Linear address space.)
6. how virtual memory  is mapped to a swap file and how  a process is  swapped in and swapped out.
7. what are the constituents  of a swap file.


Thanks and Regards
Siva

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