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Virtual memory combines active RAM and inactive memory on DASD [a] to form a large range of contiguous addresses.. In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, [b] is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that are actually available on a given machine" [3] which "creates the illusion to users of a very large (main) memory".
By reducing the I/O activity caused by paging requests, virtual memory compression can produce overall performance improvements. The degree of performance improvement depends on a variety of factors, including the availability of any compression co-processors, spare bandwidth on the CPU, speed of the I/O channel, speed of the physical memory, and the compressibility of the physical memory ...
In-kernel memory compression, April 3, 2013, LWN.net, by Dan Magenheimer The Compression Cache: Virtual Memory Compression for Handheld Computers , March 16, 2000, by Michael J. Freedman v
Memory limits on 32-bit editions of Microsoft Windows, with PAE support [17] [18] [19] Windows version Memory limit Windows 2000 Professional, Server 4 GB Windows 2000 Advanced Server 8 GB Windows 2000 Datacenter 32 GB Windows XP Starter 0.5 GB Windows XP (other editions) 4 GB Windows Server 2003 Web SP2 2 GB Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 4 GB
The required disk space may be easily allocated on systems with more recent specifications (i.e. a system with 3 GB of memory having a 6 GB fixed-size page file on a 750 GB disk drive, or a system with 6 GB of memory and a 16 GB fixed-size page file and 2 TB of disk space).
The ARM AArch64 Virtual Memory System Architecture allows from 48 to 56 bits for virtual memory and, for any given processor, from 32 to 56 bits for physical memory. [ 31 ] The DEC Alpha specification requires minimum of 43 bits of virtual memory address space (8 TB) to be supported, and hardware need to check and trap if the remaining ...
Memory virtualization technology follows from memory management architectures and virtual memory techniques. In both fields, the path of innovation has moved from tightly coupled relationships between logical and physical resources to more flexible, abstracted relationships where physical resources are allocated as needed.
Thrashing occurs when there are too many pages in memory, and each page refers to another page. Real memory reduces its capacity to contain all the pages, so it uses 'virtual memory'. When each page in execution demands that page that is not currently in real memory (RAM) it places some pages on virtual memory and adjusts the required page on RAM.