swapper process

Can anyone help what 'swapper process' is. Appreantly our production system shows some of the processes as 'swapper' processes for only small amount of time.

Is swapping of the process is happening at the kernel level memory management ? BTW, the cpu usage and memory usage of those unix boxes are at optimum levels.

It was not there before. It's started coming from last few days. Any idea what could have changed at system level causing this ?

Helo.
The swapper process is part of the kernel. It should have PID 0 and is in charge of scheduling processes. So It's normal. :slight_smile:
Regards.