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In virtual memory, the operating system uses a technique called
to manage memory.
What is the role of the operating system in virtual memory management?
Page Fault
What is a TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffer)?
Translation Lookaside Buffer
Virtual Memory
What is virtual memory?
If a page is not currently in physical memory, a page fault occurs and the operating system must retrieve it from
.
What is a page fault?
The process of moving pages between physical memory and disk is known as
.
The process of translating virtual addresses to physical addresses is called
mapping.
Page Table
What is a demand paging system?
When a program is running, the operating system divides its memory into fixed-size blocks called
.
TLB stands for Translation Lookaside
, which is a cache used to improve the efficiency of virtual memory access.
Memory Mapping
Why is virtual memory important?
Thrashing
A page table is used to map virtual addresses to
addresses.
Swap Space
