CSC 203 1.

Computer System Architecture

Budditha Hettige
Department of Statistics and Computer Science University of Sri Jayewardenepura
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Virtual Memory

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Virtual Memory
Virtual memory is a memory management technique developed for multitasking kernels Separation of user logical memory from physical memory. Logical address space can therefore be much larger than physical address space

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A System with Physical Memory Only

Examples:
Most Cray machines, early PCs, nearly all embedded systems, etc.
Memory Physical Addresses 0: 1:

CPU

N-1:

Addresses generated by the CPU correspond directly to bytes in physical memory

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A System with Virtual Memory

Examples:
Workstations, servers, modern PCs, etc. Virtual Addresses Memory

Page Table
0: 1: Physical Addresses

0: 1:

CPU

P-1:

N-1: Disk

Address Translation: Hardware converts virtual addresses to physical ones via OS-managed lookup table (page table)
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Page Tables
Virtual Page Number Memory-resident page table (physical page Valid or disk address) 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1

Physical Memory

Disk Storage (swap file or regular file system file)

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VM Windows
Can change the paging file size Can set multiple Virtual memory on difference drivers

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Windows Memory management

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