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Page File and Virtual Memory

Describe the relationship between a page file, and virtual memory on a Windows operating systems.

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Last Update: April 17, 2008 Asked by: maddali1982

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Submitted by: prasad.khalatkar

Page File Is Storage Space For The Virtual Memory, Page File Uses Hard Disk Space As a Memory To Provide Memory Allocation..

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March 04, 2008 06:29:01

prasad.khalatkar

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RE: Page File and Virtual Memory

Page File Is Storage Space For The Virtual Memory, Page File Uses Hard Disk Space As a Memory To Provide Memory Allocation..

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March 04, 2008 08:21:15

maddali1982

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RE: Page File and Virtual Memory

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April 17, 2008 02:35:37

kumar1974

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RE: Page File and Virtual Memory

Virtual memory is the memory taken form hard disk.

Swap: When the programme excuting in the main memory is completly shifted to Virtual Memory for the execution. Then it is called the Swaping.

Paging: When the programme executing in the main memory is shifted partly and executed in the Virtual Memory. Then it is called Paging.

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