"demand paging" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} demand paging (uncountable)
  1. (operating systems) A form of memory management using paging, whereby pages in a process's address space are only allocated and mapped to physical memory (frames) the moment the process needs to use them, rather than ahead-of-time. Tags: uncountable Coordinate_terms: anticipatory paging
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