Virtual Memory

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Virtual memory
Memory management system that allows secondary storage to act as an extension of RAM.
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Virtual address
Address generated by a program before translation to a physical memory address.
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Physical address
Actual location of data in physical RAM.
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Page
Fixed-size block of virtual memory.
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Page frame
Fixed-size block of physical memory that can hold a page.
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Page table
Data structure that maps virtual pages to physical memory frames.
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Page fault
Occurs when a requested page is not currently in physical memory.
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Page fault handling
The operating system retrieves the needed page from secondary storage and places it into RAM.
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TLB
Translation Lookaside Buffer; small fast cache that stores recent virtual-to-physical address translations.
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Virtual memory purpose
Allows programs to use more memory than the amount of physical RAM currently availabl