Sentence examples for virtual memory from inspiring English sources
noun
Memory that appears to be RAM but is being simulated (by a process called paging) on a hard disk; allows a computer to operate as if it had more memory than it actually does, but with some loss of performance
If you use the Mac's Virtual Memory control panel to simulate actual RAM, try increasing the amount of space devoted to Virtual Memory.
32-bit addressing seriously limits what can be done efficiently with the virtual memory map.
As with other modern operating systems, it uses a virtual memory map, not a physical one.
It manages multitasking scheduling, system input/output, virtual memory and passing data between processes.
Another area of operating-system research has been the design of virtual memory.
You can try to adjust your virtual memory settings within Windows, but if you are already tight on hard drive space, virtual memory may not have any room to spare, and you will notice a decline in performance.
He pointed out that OS 7, OS 8 and OS 9 have a utility that can manage virtual memory.
Even with virtual memory, however, some "kernel" of the operating system has to remain in main memory.
Likewise, virtual memory and caches give good memory-access times on the average, but sometimes they are slow.
Is our place to manage virtual memory?
