Under what circumstances do page faults occur?



Under what circumstances do page faults occur?..

Answer / Satish Kumar Ranjan

Page faults occur in an operating system when a process requests a page that is not currently in the main memory (RAM), and the page needs to be swapped in from the secondary storage (like a hard disk).

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