Swapping" is an old mechanism where whole process images were moved from memory to disk to free memory for another process. "Paging" is the deactivation of pages or portions of a process's memory. That is, the least most recently used pages are moved to disk as necessary to create free memory. In particular, "swapping out a process" used to be simultaneously a scheduling operating and a memory management operation. With paging, there is no explicit connection between how much of a program's... read more
