Swapping

1. Coming soon. (Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute) 2. The reaction of the operating system to insufficient real memory: swapping occurs when too many tasks are perceived to be competing for limited resources. It is the physical movement of an entire task (e.g., all real memory pages of an address space may be moved at one time from main storage to auxiliary storage). (Source: OGC, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v3)