The Address Space
You will learn about the address space of a process that is achieved by the virtualization of memory in this lesson.
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However, we have to keep those pesky users in mind, and doing so requires the OS to create an easy to use abstraction of physical memory. We call this abstraction the address space, and it is the running program’s view of memory in the system. Understanding this fundamental OS abstraction of memory is key to understanding how memory is virtualized.
Address space of a process
The address space of a process contains all of the memory state of the running program. For example, the code of the program (the instructions) have to live in memory somewhere, and thus they are in the ...