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What is virtual memory ? what is the use of virtual memory

Wednesday, December 15, 2010


Since the early days of computing, there has been a need for more memory than exists
physically in a system. Virtual memory makes the system appear to have more memory than it actually has by sharing it between competing processes as they need it.

Virtual memory does more than just make your computer's memory go further
Large Address Spaces
Protection
Memory Mapping
Fair Physical Memory Allocation
Shared Virtual Memory

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