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demand paging

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English

Syllables
de-mand -pag-ing
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Uncountable

Usage

Frequently Paired Words

anticipatory paging

Questions

What does demand paging mean?
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.

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