-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (sorry for the late reply, I have been away for some time) On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:34:18PM +0200, Devvrat Tripathi wrote: > On 6/7/07, Erik Mouw <mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:45:25PM +0200, Devvrat Tripathi wrote: > >> On 6/7/07, Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi124@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >On Linux or any UNIX platform process with PID 1 is init process and > >> >process with PID 0 is a swapper process. > >> > >> Yes, i got it but i still cant understand what work does it do. Why is > >it > >> initiating so many DMA transfers. > > > >Is it really that hard? The name gives it away: the swapper swaps. > > > This is what this site( > http://tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/memory/linuxmm.html) says about > swapper task You are right, swapper task doesn't swap. I got the impression it still did. Erik - -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGbweg/PlVHJtIto0RAmMtAJ9S7jeIt4lZglCQLkAuDqGp1lTJQgCeIhga kyeXFTwvfpQw6dlQHgluwtM= =XpSv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
