page out

page out (third-person singular simple present pages out, present participle paging out, simple past and past participle paged out)

1. (transitive, computing) To transfer (memory contents) to auxiliary storage.
   • 2002, Allan N. Packer, Configuring and Tuning Databases on the Solaris Platform, page 362:

     However, if the ASE application is paged out because of memory starvation, the entire process is blocked and no useful work can be done until the required pages are brought into memory.

• outpage
• swap out (where a swap file is involved)

• outpage, guapote