I don't even know where to start. At the 10,000 foot level, a description of a page fault might sound like an index miss, but the similarity ends there. Data ac

I don't even know where to start. At the 10,000 foot level, a description of a page fault might sound like an index miss, but the similarity ends there. Data access typically doesn't work at the page level at all - pages only move if the underlying virtual memory system doesn't have a requested address - so it is almost a coincidence if page faults occur at the operating system level when data isn't being found by higher level applications. They are two different systems. I realize that my description is very poor - but these are two complex systems which are being conflated. I don't know of any easy way to describe them both.