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 ...

OS X Lion's FileVault technology may seem to make encrypted virtual memory redundant, but maintaining encryption even with FileVault 2 enabled is likely a good idea.

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 ...

In short, it's a 32-bit OS with a dual layer architecture. The kernel and application processes are allowed 2GB of memory each and programs are allowed 1GB of virtual memory (up from a measly 32MB ...

The recently published Computer magazine Digital Storage and Memory Roundtable article contains insights from experts in the storage and memory industry on NVMe and computational storage, CXL and ...