Page Replacement

• Page fault => What if no free frames?

  • terminate user process (ugh!)
  • swap out process (reduces degree of multiprog)
  • replace other page with needed page

• Page replacement:

  • if free frame, use it
  • use algorithm to select victim frame
  • write page to disk, changing tables
  • read in new page
  • restart process

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