On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Thomas Finneid <tfinn...@fcon.no> wrote:

>
> As I understand it, data is stored in pages and those pages have to be
> retrieved in order to write or read data from them. So my assumption is that
> a page used to write data would not be replaced until memory is low and
> different pages needs to be retrieved. Is this approximately correct?
>

Yes. That's how it works.

Thanks,
Pavan

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