virtual memory

noun

Definition of virtual memory

: a section of a hard drive that can be used as if it were an extension of a computer's random-access memory

— called also virtual storage

Examples of virtual memory in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Memory doesn’t actually go up to 18GB, but Nubia says in the press release the phones feature a RAM Boost memory compression technology that expands virtual memory so that 12GB of RAM is used like 18GB of RAM. — Jacob Siegal, BGR, "This crazy Android phone has 18GB of RAM and a cooling fan," 4 Mar. 2021 In the meantime, the Playwrights' Center is honoring her with a virtual memory page. — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, "Barbara Field, a 'queen of adaptations' and champion of playwrights, dies at 87," 23 Feb. 2021 Osment appeared on Cyrus' Instagram Live show, BRIGHT MINDED: Live With Miley, and the pair took a trip down virtual memory lane. — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, "Miley Cyrus and Emily Osment Had a 'Hannah Montana' Reunion on Instagram Live," 24 Mar. 2020 In short, the mitigation worked by isolating virtual memory page tables of user-mode threads from kernel memory. — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, "Solved: Why in-the-wild Bluekeep exploits are causing patched machines to crash," 11 Nov. 2019 Petabytes of RAM Sunny Cove also makes the first major change to x64 virtual memory support since AMD introduced its x86-64 64-bit extension to x86 in 2003. — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, "Intel unveils a new architecture for 2019: Sunny Cove," 12 Dec. 2018 This was because Apple wanted to give 32-bit applications access to the full 4GB of virtual memory, rather than splitting that 4GB between the program and the kernel. — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, "Meltdown and Spectre: Here’s what Intel, Apple, Microsoft, others are doing about it," 5 Jan. 2018 This attacker code can disclose the PSP's secrets, undermining the integrity of the firmware TPM, AMD's encrypted virtual memory, and various other platform features. — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, "AMD promises firmware fixes for security processor bugs," 20 Mar. 2018 Accordingly, modern operating systems all depend on a broad concept called virtual memory. — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, "What’s behind the Intel design flaw forcing numerous patches?," 3 Jan. 2018

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