> Maybe this is a little off topic, but does what is the real status of
> Process 0 (swapper) ?
> Some people keep telling me it doesn't exist, but on some kernel crashes
> I can see "process swapper (pid 0, process nr 0, ...)"
It's the idle task. Only exists to keep the CPU occupied when
nothing else wants to run.
Rik
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