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If you require a page to be swapped out and must allow for the possibility of it being swapped back in, you need to make sure that the page has the latest changes when it is again swapped in. If changes have been made to a page selected for swapping out, you must save the page to disk. If changes have NOT been made to a page selected for swapping out, you can immediately overwrite memory with a new page, without writing the old page back to disk. Disk access is sl.o..w... . You do not want to spend time writing to disk unless you really have to. The "modified" bit tells you if a change has been made to a page since it has been loaded into memory. As usual, a little bit of information can save you a lot of seek time.

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Explain how virtual memory system using demand paging?

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What are the differences between simple paging and virtual memory paging?

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There are a variety of different paging systems that can be purchased at wholesale prices. One can find wholesale paging systems on sites such as Dollar Days and DHgate.


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The question is not very clear - in general the implementation of paging is too complex to answer in a Wiki answer entry; I suggest you take a look at any Operating System theory book.


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paging is the process of memory management in which memory is allocated in the non contiguous form,i.e. the program is break into block of fixed size known as page and also the main memory also break down into block of same size known as frame or page frame. Now all this page are brought into the main memory but in the space available so they can be contiguous if they find whole space required by the program or if the space is available but in scattered form then they can give space in non contiguous form. But in demand paging only those pages are brought into main memory which are required to execute the program at that time when a program need other pages it will swap out the unused pages from the main memory and swap in the desired page thus allowing it to execute the program though the space available is not sufficient to bring the whole program into main memory..................One of the problem arises due to demand paging is page fault which is caused due to required page not found in main memory for which we require swapping. hey if you like my post don't forget to thank me....... for any further queries e-mail me at hemant_spidey3@yahoo.co.in or 1989hemantrajput@gmail.com