Wednesday, 6 August 2014

What are the events done by the Kernel after a process is being swapped out from the main memory?


When Kernel swaps the process out of the primary memory, it performs the following:
Ø  Kernel decrements the Reference Count of each region of the process. If the reference count becomes zero, swaps the region out of the main memory,
Ø  Kernel allocates the space for the swapping process in the swap device,
Ø  Kernel locks the other swapping process while the current swapping operation is going on,
Ø  The Kernel saves the swap address of the region in the region table.


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