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  2. Memory paging - Wikipedia

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    Memory paging. In computer operating systems, memory paging (or swapping on some Unix-like systems) is a memory management scheme by which a computer stores and retrieves data from secondary storage [a] for use in main memory. [citation needed] In this scheme, the operating system retrieves data from secondary storage in same-size blocks called ...

  3. Page replacement algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Page replacement algorithm. In a computer operating system that uses paging for virtual memory management, page replacement algorithms decide which memory pages to page out, sometimes called swap out, or write to disk, when a page of memory needs to be allocated. Page replacement happens when a requested page is not in memory ( page fault) and ...

  4. Shadow paging - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, shadow paging is a technique for providing atomicity and durability (two of the ACID properties) in database systems. A page in this context refers to a unit of physical storage (probably on a hard disk ), typically of the order of 1 to 64 KiB . Shadow paging is a copy-on-write technique for avoiding in-place updates of pages.

  5. Pagination - Wikipedia

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    Pagination, also known as paging, is the process of dividing a document into discrete pages, either electronic pages or printed pages.. In reference to books produced without a computer, pagination can mean the consecutive page numbering to indicate the proper order of the pages, which was rarely found in documents pre-dating 1500, and only became common practice c. 1550, when it replaced ...

  6. Copy-on-write - Wikipedia

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    Copy-on-write. Copy-on-write ( COW ), sometimes referred to as implicit sharing [1] or shadowing, [2] is a resource-management technique used in computer programming to efficiently implement a "duplicate" or "copy" operation on modifiable resources [3] (most commonly memory pages, storage sectors, files, and data structures).

  7. Page (computer memory) - Wikipedia

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    Page (computer memory) A page, memory page, or virtual page is a fixed-length contiguous block of virtual memory, described by a single entry in a page table. It is the smallest unit of data for memory management in an operating system that uses virtual memory. Similarly, a page frame is the smallest fixed-length contiguous block of physical ...

  8. Shadow table - Wikipedia

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    The database can send the whole transactions table. The database can send a shadow table that only contains the transactions involving the user that requested his/her transaction history. The second option is usually more favorable because it saves bandwidth and processing power on the user's end. It also keeps others' transaction data secure.

  9. Page table - Wikipedia

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    A page table is a data structure used by a virtual memory system in a computer to store mappings between virtual addresses and physical addresses. Virtual addresses are used by the program executed by the accessing process, while physical addresses are used by the hardware, or more specifically, by the random-access memory (RAM) subsystem.