I am not familiar with built in memory compression in Windows. Any modern OS will use all available memory for caching, which is great for physical machines, but not great for virtual machines ...

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.

Then, take a look at the Darwin/OS X code to see what they do for TLB Misses and/or page faults.<BR><BR>My guess is that they just use the straight up PPC hardware assisted lookup.

For example, with the e-mail program, operating system, word browser, and Web browser all running, the 32 megabytes won't be enough. ... Using Virtual Memory in the Workplace .

This default setting allows the operating system to use any amount of hard disk space as necessary. Click "OK" to apply all changes, effectively setting the virtual memory to its default level ...

Host OS This VM monitor (VMM) is installed in an existing, running computer. The VMM kernel runs alongside the host OS, and calls for I/O are redirected to virtual drivers that call the native API ...

The built-in resource manager on Proxmox detects "used" memory rather than what’s "available" to the system. Since Linux VMs ...

For over ten years, Apple has limited some features in OS updates to newer hardware. As an example, 4K ProRes recording is limited to iPhone 13 models with 256GB or more of onboard storage.

Virtual memory swap is will be available on the iPad Air (4th gen) with a minimum of 256GB storage, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th gen) and iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd gen) when iPadOS 16 launches in fall.