Linux Interview Questions: - What is the difference between Swapping and
Paging?
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 available main memory.
- It is easier to implementation and overhead to the system.
- Swapping systems does not handle the memory more flexibly as compared to the paging systems.
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 the virtual memory.
- It provides greater flexibility in mapping the virtual address space into the physical memory of the machine.
- Allows more number of processes to fit in the main memory simultaneously.
- Allows the greater process size than the available physical memory.
- Demand paging systems handle the memory more flexibly.
