Index of Virtual Memory Terms

The terms listed here are directly linked to the document where they are defined and first discussed. Further discussion of a term may be found by using the links in that document.

A - C

Address, logical

Address, physical

Address, virtual

Address space id

Anomalies of replacement policies

Associative memory

Automatic storage allocation

Belady's Anomaly

Compiler, assigning programs to memory

CPU Utilization

D - F

Degree of multiprogramming

Demonstration, locality

Demonstration, reference string

Demonstration, queueing network model

Description tables - Intel486

Description tables - Sun SPARC

Distance of page retrieval

Distance string

Dynamic memory allocation

Fault rate curve F(m)

First In First Out (FIFO)

G - M

Historical perspective of virtual memory

Knee of the lifetime curve

Last In First Out (LIFO)

Least Frequently Used

Least Recently Used (LRU)

Lifetime curve L(m)

Little-Endian format

Locality principle

Logical address

Logical page number

Minimal replacement policy (MIN)

Multi-level page table

Multiprogramming

Multiprogramming level

Memory Partitions

N - Q

Optimal replacement policy (OPT)

Page references

Page table, multi-level

Paging behavior of a real program

Physical page frame

Primary knee of lifetime curve

Program behavior

Program structure

Queueing network model, components

Queueing network model, calculations

R - T

Real program, paging behavior

Reference strings

Replacement policy

Resident set of page frames

Segmentation and Paging, comparison

Segmentation in Intel486

Stack algorithms

Static memory allocation

Storage allocation

System performance

System performance, measures

Translation look-aside buffers

Translation look-aside buffers in Intel486

U - Z

Virtual address

Virtual memory abstraction

Working set model