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Don't delete the virtual memory. It is essential to the running of your operating system.
when the actual memory is full
As per my memory these OS Ferrodo, Linux, centos won't operate virtual memory.
A swap file is the file that an operating system uses when it is moving data. A computer creates this file when it is moving data from random access memory to virtual memory.
The difference between virtual and physical memory is that virtual memory refers to memory space while physical memory are chips like RAM. The memory space for virtual memory is made by operating system when there is insufficient physical memory.
That depends on the operating system and computer architecture.
The space reserved for virtual memory varies on different computers. It depends on the operating system in use and how much system memory is available.
No.Virtual memory is a file stored on the disk and managed by the operating system software. As needed the operating system copies blocks of internal memory out to this file to free internal memory and copies blocks from this file to internal memory when a program needs it again. To assist the operating system in this task the computer has to have virtual memory management hardware and interrupts.All of the hardware that is involved directly in the operation of virtual memory is part of the computer, not the harddisk.
Some acronyms of vme would be virtual machine environment, which is an ICL operating system. It can also stand for virtual memory extension or virtual memory extended.
You can't use all of your system memory to run a virtual machine because then there wouldn't be enough memory for the Operating System that's running the virtual machine to function. For instance, if you have 4 GB of system memory total, and your operating system needs at least a quarter of that (1 GB) to function, then your virtual machine maximum memory would be 3 GB.
It might be called "reserved virtual memory space" or "virtual memory file", depending on the operating system.
It's purpose is to give the Windows operating system extra space to enable it to work properly. If a computer has insufficient RAM, Windows can use free space on the hard-drive as virtual memory.