This document summarizes key concepts of virtual memory including:
- Virtual memory separates logical from physical memory allowing for larger virtual address spaces.
- It uses demand paging to bring pages from disk to memory as needed.
- Frame allocation schemes like equal and proportional allocation are used to assign frames to processes.
- Thrashing occurs if a process does not have enough frames, causing high page fault rates and low CPU utilization.
- The principle of locality explains why virtual memory works efficiently due to processes accessing only a small working set of pages over time.