| A memory management scheme that eliminates the need for contiguous allocation of physical memory. |
A memory management technique that allows a computer to compensate for physical memory shortages, temporarily transferring data from RAM to disk storage. |
| When a process requests a page that is not currently in memory. |
A data structure used by the operating system to map virtual addresses to physical addresses. |
| A designated area on a disk that the operating system uses as virtual memory. |
A cache that stores translations from virtual memory addresses to physical memory addresses. |
| The process of assigning portions of virtual memory to physical memory locations. |
A fixed-size block of physical memory used by the operating system to store data and instructions, aligning with the size of pages in virtual memory. |