The Old New Thing

It’s the address space, stupid

June 28, 2013 Jun 28, 2013 06/28/13

Raymond Chen

Nowadays, computers have so much memory that running out of RAM is rarely the cause for an "out of memory" error. Actually, let's try that again. For over a decade, hard drive have been so large (and cheap) that running out of swap space is rarely the cause for an "out of memory" error. In user-mode, the term memory refers to virtual ...