paging or swapping. Computer memory is divided into pages so that information can be found more quickly. The concept is named by analogy to the pages...

In computer operating systems, memory paging (or swapping on some Unix-like systems) is a memory management scheme by which a computer stores and retrieves...

Computer memory stores information, such as data and programs, for immediate use in the computer. The term memory is often synonymous with the terms RAM...

users of a very large (main) memory". The computer's operating system, using a combination of hardware and software, maps memory addresses used by a program...

In computer science, thrashing occurs in a system with virtual memory when a computer's real storage resources are overcommitted, leading to a constant...

Random-access memory (RAM; /ræm/) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data...

A memory management unit (MMU), sometimes called paged memory management unit (PMMU), is a computer hardware unit that examines all memory references on...

A page table is a data structure used by a virtual memory system in a computer to store mappings between virtual addresses and physical addresses. Virtual...

the CPU and memory, while the latter performs arithmetic and logical operations on data. Without a significant amount of memory, a computer would merely...

Valley Page (computer memory), a block of virtual memory Paging, a method of data retrieval Bank switching, sometimes known as paging Electronic page, formatting...