However, with virtual memory, the computer can look at the RAM for areas that haven't been recently used and then copy them over to the hard drive. By doing this, valuable RAM space is opened up ...

Paging 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.

Any modern OS will use all available memory for caching, which is great for physical machines, but not great for virtual machines, since the host can make better overall caching decisions than the ...

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.

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.