Q9
What is page fault?
💬Answer
An interrupt triggered by the hardware MMU when a process attempts to access a virtual memory page that is not currently loaded in physical RAM. The kernel catches this interrupt, loads the required page from disk (or swap) into RAM, and resumes the process.
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