1
Paging is a form of primary memory management, said to be a way to store data non-contiguously.
It's achieved by setting a chunk, or page, size, so pages can be allocated in different areas. Would there then be some form of page table / database, to locate programs/data etc?
Why do pages need to be used, if there's already a chunk size (1bit)?
Does it make it easier? I'm missing something.
Tobi
Posted 2016-12-27T05:34:47.810
Reputation: 172
3
The term "paging" normally refers to the process of moving data between physical memory and secondary storage as part of virtual memory.
Why is paging used?
You appear to be using the term to describe the process of creating a logical address space using pages. This is done for many reasons:
Would there then be some form of page table / database, to locate programs/data etc?
The logical address space composed of pages is defined by one or more page tables.
Why do pages need to be used, if there's already a chunk size (1bit)?
It would be extremely inefficient to allocate memory in bits.
user3344003
Posted 2016-12-27T05:34:47.810
Reputation: 146
Having a table of every bit that is available would be kind of memory intensive and slow. Hence you use a bigger chunk. There is page table for this.
– Seth – 2016-12-27T07:15:42.650The distinction between virtual memory paging, and paging in RAM isn't very clear; is there one? – Tobi – 2016-12-27T18:46:52.530