Virtual memory, also known as a Page file, adds to the physical RAM by using disk space. However, moving the page file to a secondary SSD can help free up space if you run out of space on the primary.

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A process’s memory regions may be paged, or swapped, to a disk file when RAM has become scarce. The virtual memory management system is responsible for this swapping. In most cases, a process doesn’t ...

Its been argued that with increasing capacity of memory storage per chip, virtual memory is an idea whose time has passed, and should be dropped from future computers. Do you agree/disagee?

Until recently, an explanation of memory management would have amounted to a description of a computer’s virtual memory implementation. Now however, memory management encompasses organizing frequently ...