LinkedIn Interview Question

Tell me about virtual memory, what it is user for ?

Interview Answer

Anonymous

May 26, 2016

Virtual Memory is a technique used by the OS to provide memory addressable to a program. This memory address could be made up of Physical Memory or Disk Space. This management of memory can provide a contiguous block of memory to the program but under the hood, it could be swapping for newer memory on disk or assign additional faster RAM locations.