Courses/Computer Science/CPSC 457.F2013/Lecture Notes/PageReplacement

= Page Replacement =

In this session we will look at one of the most important and studied topics in operating systems: the approaches taken to managing a working set of memory pages, and shuffling them in between disk and physical memory to support paging and virtual memory.

= Focus Question =

How does the OS pick which page frame to evict when a page fault occurs and there are no free page frames?

= Notes =


 * Slides http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~locasto/teaching/2013/CPSC457-Fall/talks/paging.pdf

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= Readings =


 * MOS: 3.4
 * MOS: 3.5
 * MOS: 3.6