[1] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

page fault
     
         in a paged virtual memory system, an
        access to a page block of memory that is not currently
        mapped to physical memory.  when a page fault occurs the
        operating system either fetches the page in from secondary
        storage usually disk if the access was legitimate or
        otherwise reports the access as illegal.
     
        1995-11-11
     
     
see also:
paged virtual memory physical memory operating system secondary storage 

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