virtual/physical memory?...

[Guest]

hi all.
What is the difference between virtual/physical memory. My system info tells
me i have == total physical memory 256.00 MB==
== total virtual memory 2.00 GB==

 

[Guest]

Physical memory refers to the physical RAM installed on your PC, in this case
256MB. Virtual memory is generally your pagefile which is free space from
your harddisk used by a memory manager to provide your applications with more
memory to work with.

HTH.

 

[Guest]

Try search at microsoft,type:314482 and 307886

 

[André Gulliksen]

Physical memory refers to the physical RAM installed on your PC, in this
case
256MB. Virtual memory is generally your pagefile which is free space from
your harddisk used by a memory manager to provide your applications with
more
memory to work with.

I was under the impression that virtual memory was the sum of RAM _and_ the
pagefile(s)?

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Virtual memory IS the page file. Ram is the real memory.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

Check here for clear concise information about virtual memory
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


| hi all.
| What is the difference between virtual/physical memory. My system info
tells
| me i have == total physical memory 256.00 MB==
| == total virtual memory 2.00 GB==
|

 

[Ken Blake]

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"Mervin R." <Mervin (e-mail address removed)> skrev i
melding


I was under the impression that virtual memory was the sum of
RAM
_and_ the pagefile(s)?

You are correct, although some people use the term as Mervin
defines it. Some people even uses it both ways, inconsistently.