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What If Memory Is Full?

Explore how operating systems handle situations when memory is full during virtual memory management. Understand the role of page-replacement policies in deciding which memory pages to evict, and discover the impact these decisions have on program performance and efficiency.

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In the process described in the previous lesson, you may notice that we assumed there is plenty of free memory in which to page in a page from swap space. Of course, this may not be the case; memory may be ...