In computing, a virtual address space (VAS) or address space is the set of ranges of virtual addresses that an operating system makes available to a process...
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address space or collection of contiguous segments. The operating system manages virtual address spaces and the assignment of real memory to virtual memory...
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an address space in a system with virtual memory corresponds to a highest level translation table, e.g., a segment table in IBM System/370. Address spaces...
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X86-64 (redirect from X86-64 virtual address space)
entire virtual address space of 264 bytes (16 EiB) to be used. This would be approximately four billion times the size of the virtual address space on 32-bit...
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Virtual address refers to an address identifying a virtual, i.e. non-physical, entity. For example: Virtual address space in computing Virtual address...
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Memory paging (redirect from Swap space)
multiple virtual address spaces, the "extra memory" can be used to run more processes. Paging allows the cumulative total of virtual address spaces to exceed...
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Translation lookaside buffer (redirect from Address space number)
translations of virtual memory to physical memory. It is used to reduce the time taken to access a user memory location. It can be called an address-translation...
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Protected mode (redirect from Protected Virtual Address Mode)
In computing, protected mode, also called protected virtual address mode, is an operational mode of x86-compatible central processing units (CPUs). It...
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Memory management unit (category Virtual memory)
requests, known as virtual memory addresses, into physical addresses in main memory. In modern systems, programs generally have addresses that access the...
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Page table (redirect from Address table)
structure used by a virtual memory system in a computer to store mappings between virtual addresses and physical addresses. Virtual addresses are used by the...
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extending the virtual address space, and uses additional physical address bits at all levels of the page table, extending the physical address space. It also...
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Memory segmentation (redirect from Segmented address space)
model Memory management (operating systems) Segmentation fault Virtual address space Virtual memory x86 memory segmentation Models 115, 125, 135, 138, 145...
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A virtual office is part of the flexible workspace industry that provides businesses with any combination of services, space and/or technology, without...
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IA-32 segments are subdivisions of the computer's linear address space, the virtual address space provided by the paging hardware. The Multics operating...
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allow the processor to address 264 bytes (16 exabytes) of virtual address space and 252 bytes (4 petabytes) of physical address space. x86-64 64-bit compatibility...
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usually uses virtual memory to provide separate address spaces, or separate regions of a single address space, called user space and kernel space. Primarily...
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CPU cache (redirect from Virtual-to-physical address translation)
forcing address spaces to be non-overlapping, tagging the virtual address with an address space ID (ASID). Additionally, there is a problem that virtual-to-physical...
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isolation can be implemented with virtual address space, where process A's address space is different from process B's address space – preventing A from writing...
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Page fault (category Virtual memory)
Accessing the page requires a mapping to be added to the process's virtual address space. Besides, the actual page contents may need to be loaded from a...
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Memory management (redirect from Heap space)
size of the virtual address space beyond the available amount of RAM using paging or swapping to secondary storage. The quality of the virtual memory manager...
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kernels, such as Linux, divide their virtual address space into two regions, devoting the larger to user space and the smaller to the kernel. In current...
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of an object file or the corresponding section of the program's virtual address space that contains executable instructions. The term "segment" comes...
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have different address spaces: if on the same host machine, they have distinct virtual address spaces, even though the physical address space is the same;...
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IBM System/370 (redirect from Operating System/Virtual Storage 2)
the ESA/370 extensions that allowed a machine to have multiple virtual address spaces and easily switch among them. The 370 was IBM's primary large mainframe...
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(no-execute) is a technology used in CPUs to segregate areas of a virtual address space to store either data or processor instructions. An operating system...
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Hyper-V (redirect from Windows Server Virtualization)
Hyper-V can hardware accelerate the address translation of Guest Virtual Address-spaces by using second level address translation provided by the CPU, referred...
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related to commit charge: Total is the amount of pagefile-backed virtual address space in use, i.e., the current commit charge. This is composed of main...
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code segment is set to include only part of the address space, to provide some level of executable space protection. OpenBSD 3.3 shipped May 1, 2003, and...
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32-process limit of prior versions. Each process receives 2 GB of virtual address space, up from 32 MB. Windows Embedded CE is commonly used in supermarket...
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In a computer supporting virtual memory, the term physical address is used mostly to differentiate from a virtual address. In particular, in computers...
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