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.

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 ...

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 ...

If your PC runs low on virtual memory, you can adjust the size using Settings and Command Prompt. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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.