Where Are Page Tables Stored?
Understand why page tables occupy significant memory in operating systems and how they are stored in physical memory. Explore the impact of address space size on page table storage and the importance of this data structure for virtual-to-physical address translation.
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Page tables require large memory
Page tables can get terribly large, much bigger than the small segment table or base/bounds pair we have discussed previously. For example, imagine a ...