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verbpage out (third-person singular simple present pages out, present participle paging out, simple past and past participle paged out)
present singular third person pages out · participle present paging out · participle past paged out · past paged out
- transitivecomputingTo transfer (memory contents) to auxiliary storage.
However, if the ASE application is paged out because of memory starvation, the entire process is blocked and no useful work can be done until the required pages are brought into memory.
2002, Allan N. Packer, Configuring and Tuning Databases on the Solaris Platform, page 362
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