Processes That Start with a “(cheesy) Poof”

• BSD Spontaneous Processes

  • swapper - process 0
  • init - process 1
  • pagedaemon - process 2

• ATT Spontaneous Processes

  • sched - process 0
  • init - process 1
  • various memory handlers (except on Solaris)

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