paging space
nounUK /ˈpeɪdʒɪŋ speɪs/
US /ˈpeɪdʒɪŋ speɪs/
A special spot on a computer's hard drive where it keeps things when its memory is full.
When the computer ran out of memory, it moved some data to paging space.
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2. The area on a disk used by an operating system to store inactive memory pages.
The system administrator increased the paging space to prevent crashes.
3. A reserved partition or file that acts as an extension of physical memory.
Paging space usage spiked during the backup job.
4. The total capacity available for swapping data between RAM and disk.
Check that paging space is at least twice the size of physical RAM.