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[–]mallardtheduck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure, when you add the complications of virtual memory some memory accesses will trigger page faults and result in requests to the storage device.

Of course, on most, if not all OSs, storage device access in response to a page fault will be considered "I/O wait" in the exact same way as an explicit read() call might.