What is the meaning of physical memory and virtual memory?
Physical memory is the amount of RAM available in your system.
Virtual memory is the space of hard disk which is reserved as RAM. The locations in ram is mapped with that of the virtual memory. whenever the operating system finds that the amount of space in ram is not sufficient for the program it loads some portion of the program in virtual memory and the currently required portion in ram.
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