A multilevel paging system is proposed to address the problem of large page tables consuming too much memory. With a 32-bit machine and 4KB pages, each program would need a 4MB page table, and 100 programs would need 400MB of memory just for page tables. A multilevel page table system stores page tables across multiple levels, with higher-level tables referencing lower-level tables. This allows lower-level tables to be paged out to disk since the higher-level table provides the location to find them. Now only the top-level table needs to remain in memory, reducing page table memory usage significantly.