MemoryPage.md (501B)
1 # Memory Page 2 3 **Source:** CS 6200 4 5 **Chapter:** P1L2 6 7 **Definition:** A memory page is an abstraction on top of a data storage medium that allows processes to use bytes associated with the memory page. 8 9 In the case of swap, processes are not aware they are using swap, but this might be where their information is being stored by the OS. 10 11 ## Mechanisms 12 13 - Allocate 14 - Map to a process's address space 15 16 ## Policies 17 18 - Least recently used to disk 19 - LRU pages are evicted from physical memory (swap)