hey i was reading some stuff about windows i was wondering if file is loaded at virtual memory and let's say we load many files at once wouldn't that cause thrashing ? or exucatables are loaded into RAM then copied to virtual memory of hdd ?
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Jump to PostOne thing that causes thrashing is when physical memory is filled up and spills over into virtual memory. Virtual memory is disk based instead of RAM based, so it is much slower to access data stored in virtual memory. Anything that uses RAM can potentially cause that form of thrashing.
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