Swapping

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2019 Nov 5 5:17
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2023 Sep 13 7:54
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A process can be swapped temporarily out of memory to a backing store - and then brought back into memory for continued execution
Backing store - Fast disk that must provide direct access to these memory images
bring a page into memory only when it is needed (page-level swapping)
  • OS do movement of pages between memory/disks
  • evicted pages go to disk if page is dirty to a swap file
 
 
 
 

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