Unix Interview Questions and Answers
Question: What is called a page fault?Answer: Page fault is referred to the situation when the process addresses a page in the working set of the process but the process fails to locate the page in the working set. And on a page fault the kernel updates the working set by reading the page from the secondary device. |
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