English Explanatory Dictionary

demand paging

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of memory management using paging, whereby pages in a process's address space are only allocated and mapped to physical memory (frames) the moment the process needs to use them, rather than ahead-of-time.

Word forms

demand paging
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