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Swapping is the one of the efficient regular and authentic approach of memory management.

It is the process of swapping of higher priorrity process on the lower priority process.

Advantages of swapping are as follows :-

1. higher degree of multiprogramming.

2. dynamic relocation.

3. greater memory utilization.

4. priority based scheduling.

5. less wastage of CPU time.

6. higher performance.

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