Diffrence between Paging & swap?

Answer Posted / 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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