Computer Science GCSE
Page file or swap file
What Page file or swap file means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Page file or swap file
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Reference: OCR
A reserved area of secondary storage where the operating system moves pages of data that are not currently being used when RAM becomes full.
Topics that use Page file or swap file
- Primary storage (memory) (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Cache
- Cache size
- Computer start-up sequence
- CPU access to instructions and data
- Primary storage
- Speed and performance
- Start-up and firmware
- Swapping
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