Also known as swap space, swap, swapping, memory paging, memory swapping
memory management scheme by which a computer stores and retrieves data from secondary storage for use in main memory
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In computer operating systems, memory paging is a memory management scheme that introduces a level of indirection between physical and logical addresses and allows the physical memory used by a program to be non-contiguous. This also helps avoid the problem of memory fragmentation.
Paging is often combined with the related technique of allocating and freeing page frames and storing pages on and retrieving them from secondary storage in order to allow the aggregate size of the address spaces to exceed the physical memory of the system. For historical reasons, this technique is sometimes referred to as swapping.
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