page fault

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Definitions of page fault words

noun Technical meaning of page fault (memory management) In a paged virtual memory system, an access to a page (block) of memory that is not currently mapped to physical memory. When a page fault occurs the operating system either fetches the page in from secondary storage (usually disk) if the access was legitimate or otherwise reports the access as illegal. 1
noun page fault (computing) An alert (such as an interrupt or exception) indicating that a page of memory was accessed without being loaded. 0

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