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Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] faults in paging
Date: Thursday, 26 Nov 2020, 12:46:42


    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > Whats the point of having more virtual memory space than physical memory
    > if each frame has to be in memory? Will there always be at least
    > 2^(len(virtual_addr) - len(physical_addr)) pages that would lead to faults?

The point is being able to run programs that are too
large to fit in physical memory.

--Stan-
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