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Q. Which daemon manages physical memory by moving the process that is in ‘physical memory’ to the ‘swap space’ when more physical memory is needed?

  • (A) Swap daemon
  • (B) Init daemon
  • (C) Process daemon
  • (D) Sched daemon
  • Correct Answer - Option(A)
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Explanation by: Jatin Dubey
It is normal for Linux systems to use swap, even if physical memory (RAM) is always free. The kernel moves memory pages that are hardly used into swap memory. The use of swap becomes a problem only when the amount of available physical memory is insufficient, and the kernel is forced to constantly move memory pages to the swap space and back to physical memory, just to keep the applications running. In this case, the System Monitor Applications show a large amount of disk I/O activity.

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