Diffrence between Paging & swap?

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Diffrence between Paging & swap?..

Answer / vishwanath

Swapping is defined as a temporary storage location i,e
used when the system exceeds the available physical memory.

Reserved part of physical Hard disk which supplements
Physical memory.

Paging is defined as transfer of selected Memory pages
between RAM & swap space.

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Diffrence between Paging & swap?..

Answer / kavikish

Swapping: Whole process is moved from the swap device to the
main memory for execution. Process size must be less than or
equal to the size of the available main memory.

Paging: Only the required memory pages are moved to main
memory from the swap device for execution. Process size does
not matter. Gives the concept of virtual memory. Allows more
number of processes to fit in the main memory simultaneously.

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Diffrence between Paging & swap?..

Answer / srinivas

swap: it is the vertual memory
pagging: where the process information is stored by taking
the one page swap space

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Diffrence between Paging & swap?..

Answer / hyma

Paging:Transfer of selected Memory pages between Ram to Swap

Swapping:Transfer of selected Memory pages between Swap to
Ram