Beginner Operating Systems
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What is swapping in memory management?

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The correct answer is B) Moving an entire process from RAM to disk (swap space) to free physical memory for other processes

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Correct Answer

Moving an entire process from RAM to disk (swap space) to free physical memory for other processes

Explanation

Swapping moves entire processes to disk to free RAM. Modern OSes use demand paging (swap individual pages) instead of whole-process swapping for efficiency.

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