Department of AI &DS Engineering

Library Hour Report

Academic Year :2022-23
DATE: 13/01/2023
NAME OF STUDENT: Disha Chordiya
CLASS :SE(A) ROLL NO.:19
TITLE OF BOOK/JOURNAL/MAGAZINE
REFERRED : Operating System Concepts 9th edition.
NAME OF AUTHOR(S): Abraham Silberchatz , Peter Baer Galvin , Greg Gagne
TOPIC: Paging

Summary/Abstract :
Paging is a storage mechanism used in OS to retrieve processes from secondary storage
to the main memory as pages. The primary concept behind paging is to break each
process into individual pages. Thus the primary memory would also be separated into
frames.

One page of the process must be saved in one of the given memory frames. These pages
can be stored in various memory locations, but finding contiguous frames/holes is
always the main goal. Process pages are usually only brought into the main memory
when they are needed; else, they are stored in the secondary storage.

The frame sizes may vary depending on the OS. Each frame must be of the same size.
Since the pages present in paging are mapped on to the frames, the page size should be
similar to the frame size.
Paging is a storage mechanism that allows OS to retrieve processes from the secondary
storage into the main memory in the form of pages. In the Paging method, the main
memory is divided into small fixed-size blocks of physical memory, which is called
frames. The size of a frame should be kept the same as that of a page to have maximum
utilization of the main memory and to avoid external fragmentation. Paging is used for
faster access to data, and it is a logical concept.

Advantages of Paging
Here, are advantages of using Paging method:

• Easy to use memory management algorithm

• No need for external Fragmentation
• Swapping is easy between equal-sized pages and page frames.

Disadvantages of Paging
Here, are drawback/ cons of Paging:

• May cause Internal fragmentation

• Page tables consume additonal memory.
• Multi-level paging may lead to memory reference overhead.
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