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Manessa

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Registered: 2023-12-29

Posts: 27

someone explain

I didn’t find this in Google (maybe I’m typing wrong), what are virtual addresses? I’ve just come across such a phenomenon as virtual addresses for swap. I hope I made it clear what question I wanted to ask.

Rademes

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2015-12-13

Posts: 637

Re: someone explain

Maybe this can help you: https://www.baeldung.com/cs/virtual-mem … swap-space

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Christopher633

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Registered: 2024-07-16

Posts: 15

Re: someone explain

Hey! Virtual addresses are used by the OS to give each process its own space, rather than using physical memory addresses directly. This makes each program think it has the whole RAM to itself, which is super handy. When it comes to swap, virtual addresses allow moving parts of data from RAM to swap memory, freeing up physical memory.

PS: If you want to dive deeper, check out some resources on memory management in OS. It's a big topic, and hard to cover all at once. If you have more questions, feel free to ask!

Christopher633