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Virtual Memory (cont)

Pages/frames are typically 512B .. 8KB in size

In a 4GB memory, would have ≅4 million × 1KB frames

Each frame can hold one page of process address space

Leads to a memory layout like this (with L total pages of physical memory):

[Diagram:Pics/opsys/all-pages.png]

When a process completes, all of its frames are released for re-use