Showing posts with label memory page. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memory page. Show all posts

Friday, October 11, 2013

what pages in memory context?

When a process uses some memory, the CPU is marking the RAM as used by that process. For efficiency, the CPU allocate RAM by chunks of 4K bytes (it's the default value on many platforms). Those chunks are named pages. Those pages can be swapped to disk, etc.