.::Virtual Memory::.
Each process is given its own 32-bit address space.
Paging – is used to remap an virtual address within one program to different physical addresses in memory. The Pentium uses a page frame size of 4,096 bytes, which is physical memory, and has 2^20 different pages in virtual memory space.
OS keeps track of pages to page-frames.
Page table – is used to translate the H.O. bits of a virtual address to select a page. The L.O. bits of the virtual address are used as an index into the page. Mapping between virtual and physical addresses is given below.
Page Table Entries
To prevent cluttering the data cache with page table entries the page table uses its own cache know as the TLB. This cache usually has 32 entries on a Pentium processor.