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i was browsing when suddenly my internet connection got disconnected. when it resumed the page that was reloading then stopped loading and i got a blank page with the text "swappedout://" in the addressbar and the title bar of the browser. can someone explain the reason? thanks in advance
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In a multitasking operating system, a situation arises when all the active processes cannot coordinate in the main memory, then a process is swap out from the main memory so that other processes can enter it.
If there is a free frame, use it. If there is no free frame, use a page-replacement algorithm to select an existing frame to be replaced, known as the victim frame. Write the victim frame to disk. Change all related page tables to indicate that this page is no longer in memory.
Q12: How can the system distinguish between the pages that are in main memory from the pages that are on the disk? The system uses valid-invalid bit is used.
Demand paging follows that pages should only be brought into memory if the executing process demands them.
Happened to me just now and before. I rarely encounter this but somehow its related to the following:
Its nothing to be alarmed of I think. Just refresh the page.
Some links related to this swappedout thing: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=143445
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