Describe the Operation of Virtual Memory Management
The main aim of memory management is to achieve efficient utilization of memory. The virtual memory manager of the Operating System is responsible for making optimal use of your RAM - that is keeping it RAM as FULL of useful stuff as possible. What Is Virtual Memory Enterprise Storage Forum Operating System Concepts Essentials 9th Edition 95 th Silberschatz Galvin and Gagne 2013 Background Virtual memory separation of user logical memory from physical memory z Only part of the program needs to be in memory for execution z Logical address space can therefore be much larger than physical address space z Allows address spaces to be shared by several. . In a sense the main memory acts as cache for the data stored on disk. So the benefit of using the Virtual Memory is that if we are having some program that is larger than the size of the main memory then instead of loading all the pages we load some important pages. Virtual memory is a feature ...