ON_DEMAND_PAGING

The ON_DEMAND_PAGING feature enables on demand memory allocation and paging using the MEM_VIRTUAL model. ON_DEMAND_PAGING is only available when the VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_SPACE feature is enabled.

Normally when a demand is made for memory, the same amount of physical and virtual memory is allocated by the operating system. When the ON_DEMAND_PAGING feature is enabled, virtual memory allocation of the user address space does not necessary mean that physical memory will be allocated. Instead, the operating system may allocate the corresponding amount of memory on a large swap disk partition. When this occurs, physical memory will be used as a cache for the swap partition.