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Page
A page, memory page or virtual page is a fixed-length contigous block of
virtual memory
, described by a single entry in thepage table
.It is the smallest unit of data for memory mangement in a
virtual memory
OS.A
page frame
is the smallest fixed-length contiguous block of physical memory into which memory pages are mapped by the OS.A transfer of pages between main memory and an auxiliary store, such as a hard disk drive, is referred to as
paging
orswapping
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Page table
A page table is the data structure used by a virual memory system in a computer OS to store the mapping between vir
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