wat is virtual memory?
how we can increase or decrease the virtual memory?

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wat is virtual memory? how we can increase or decrease the virtual memory?..

Answer / luv

Virtual memory are a part of operating sysytem in which
whenever ram have no space to execute any process than
operating system uses some part of hard disk as a ram.
Those part of memory known as virtual memory because this
is virtually created by operating system whenever needed.
This memory created by operating system in big companies in
which more process executes and ram have no space because
they contain more process already. Most operating systems
contains this concept.

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wat is virtual memory? how we can increase or decrease the virtual memory?..

Answer / gopal

IT IS MEMORY MANAGEMANT SCHEME THAT MAPS LARGE LOGICAL
ADDRESS TO SMALL PHYSICAL MEMORY.
IT DEPENDS ON THE SIZE OF sECONDRY MEMORY SO INCREASE IN THE
SIZE OF SECONDRY MEMORY INCREASES THE SIZE OF VIRTUAL
MEMORY,VICE-VERSA.

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wat is virtual memory? how we can increase or decrease the virtual memory?..

Answer / rahimsk

virtual memory is a system performance technique.It is very useful to run more process,by mapping the primary memory to secondary memory. If you want to increase or decrease go for
start ->right click on my computer -> properties -> advanced
-> click on performance setting -> advanced -> go for virtual memory change -> apply ok .It will ask restart click ok.

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wat is virtual memory? how we can increase or decrease the virtual memory?..

Answer / shilpa

it is the memory management scheme so that we can map our
logical address to some physical address

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wat is virtual memory? how we can increase or decrease the virtual memory?..

Answer / sruthi

Virtual memory is hardware technique where the system appears to have more memory that it actually does. This is done by time-sharing, the physical memory and storage parts of the memory one disk when they are not actively being used.

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