Sunday, July 19, 2009

Page State

Any page in VAS (PAS) of a process can be in one of the three states.
  1. Committed: A page state of a page which is mapped to a page frame in physical memory (or to a page-sized entry in a file on disk)
  2. Reserved: A page state of a page which been set aside for future use so that it cannot be re-used for any other purpose within the process, but has no associated physical page storage
  3. Free: A page state of a page which is available to be reserved

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