Introduction to Swapping: Policies
This lesson briefly introduces the topic discussed throughout this chapter, and also reflects on why the operating system needs it.
In a virtual memory manager, life is easy when you have a lot of free memory. A page fault occurs, you find a free page on the free-page list and assign it to the faulting page. Hey, Operating System, congratulations! You did it again.
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