Chapter 6, Problem 37RETC

Explanation of Solution

Virtual memory:

• Virtual memory is considered to be an imaginary memory location where the addressing issues are handled by the operating system.
• It provides extended access to the Random Access Memory. The access is made possible using the page table by mapping the physical address that is present with that of the virtual.
• The virtual address is represented using page number and offset.
• The program contains its own private space for storing it data contents.

Advantages of virtual memory:

The below are the advantages of virtual memory:

• The data and code can be shared in order to save the space.
• It has a very simple memory management algorithm...