Paging Virtual memory breaks programs into fixed-size blocks called pages. If a computer has abundant physical memory, the operating system loads all of a program's pages into RAM.

Memory Hierarchy Design – Part 3. Memory technology and optimizations, which examined innovations in main memory that offer improved system performance This installment, which examines architecture ...

Virtual Memory swapfiles and OS X performanceA. Brody has updated his Mac OS X Installation FAQ to include information about how too little free hard disk space (often combined with too little ...

One of the classic developments in computing systems is virtual memory, a combination of hardware and software that creates the illusion of private memory for each process. In the same school of ...