《OPERATING SYSTEMS教学课件》ch3a.pptVIP

* Virtual Memory Virtual memory – separation of user logical memory from physical memory. Provide user with virtual memory that is as big as user needs Logical address space can therefore be much larger than physical address space. Store virtual memory on disk Only part of the program needs to be in memory for execution. Allows address spaces to be shared by several processes. Allows for more efficient process creation. Load and store cached virtual memory without user program intervention * Principle of Locality Locality of reference: During the phase of execution the process references rela