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demand paging

demand paging noun: 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.

Noun

demand paging (uncountable)

  1. (operating systems) 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.

demand paging meaning in Tamil

demand paging in Tamil

கோரிக்கைப் பக்கமேற்றல்

Questions about demand paging

What does demand paging mean?
Demand paging means 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.
What is demand paging in Tamil?
Demand paging in Tamil is கோரிக்கைப் பக்கமேற்றல். See Demand paging meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is demand paging?
Demand paging is a noun.

Words near demand paging in the dictionary

  1. demand drafts
  2. demand letter
  3. demand letters
  4. demand note
  5. demand notes
  6. demand paging
  7. demand partner
  8. demand partners
  9. demand side
  10. demand valve
  11. demand valves

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