>Yes, it is the accepted one. However, in Linux, the paging systems
>which fall under "kswapd"s control include the removal of clean pages
>from each process. Therefore, the term "swapping" under Linux seems
>to fit the second definition more closely than the first.
Technically, of course, neither is really swapping in the traditional sense.
Colloquially, in this day and age, I get the impression most people think of
the case where dirty pages are flushed to disk as "swapping", and the
scenario where clean pages are just chucked away and later reloaded as
"paging".
p.
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