What is aging in operating system?



What is aging in operating system?..

Answer / Deepak Kumar Pathak

Aging is a technique used by the Operating System to decide which processes should be swapped out (suspended) from main memory when there is a shortage of memory. The process that has been idle for a long time is usually the one chosen for swapping out.

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