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Understanding Demand Paging in Virtual Memory

Demand paging loads pages of memory only when needed during program execution to reduce physical memory usage, pages not accessed are never loaded; when swapping in a process, the pager guesses and loads only pages that will be used before swapping out to decrease swap time and physical memory needed.

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Understanding Demand Paging in Virtual Memory

Demand paging loads pages of memory only when needed during program execution to reduce physical memory usage, pages not accessed are never loaded; when swapping in a process, the pager guesses and loads only pages that will be used before swapping out to decrease swap time and physical memory needed.

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Demand Paging

A strategy is to load pages only as they are needed. This technique is known as
demand paging and is commonly used in virtual memory systems. With
demand-paged virtual memory, pages are only loaded when they are
demanded during program execution; pages that are never accessed are thus
never loaded into physical memory.
How to reduce the SWAP time:
When a process is to be swapped in, the pager(swapper)
guesses which pages will be used before the process is swapped
out again.

Instead of swapping in a whole process, the pager brings only


those pages into memory.

Thus, it avoids reading into memory pages that will not be


used anyway, decreasing the swap time and the amount of
physical memory needed.

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