In Abraham Silberschatz’s Book, Greg Gagne, Peter B. Galvin – Operating System Concepts (2018) says:
Standard swapping was used in traditional UNIX systems, but it is
generally no longer used in contemporary operating systems, because
the amount of time required to move entire processes between memory
and the backing store is prohibitive […].Most systems, including
Linux and Windows, now use a variation of swapping in which pages of a
process—rather than an entire process—can be swapped. This strategy
still allows physical memory to be oversubscribed, but does not incur
the cost of swapping entire processes, as presumably only a small
number of pages will be involved in swapping.
Is the parameter Swappiness actually a pagination type?
