Virtual Memory

1 replies · 2,328 views · Started 06 July 2005

V R Krishna 06 Jul 2005, 20:22

Hi,

I would like to know if there is virtual memory in Symbian.

If yes, what is the page size in bytes. Also, where will the OS page out ?

There seems to be no secondary memory. So how does it handle paging?

I would also like to know the maximum memory allocated to a process.

Thanks in advance

Regards
Krishna

N/A 07 Jul 2005, 07:17

Symbian OS is a 32-bit operating system. There is virtual memory (each process have their own address space).

However, there is no demand paging/swapping at all, so the available Dynamic RAM determines what can be done. The OS closes silently applications in the background, if the foreground app needs more memory.