Virtual Memory an option?

2 replies · 2,090 views · Started 15 August 2005

apoc_reg 15 Aug 2005, 10:47

Hi Guys

On my PC i can set an amount of virtual memory which acts like RAM

To solve the problem of low RAM in our phones would it be possible to develop a program to use say memory on your RS-MMC as virtual memory?

N/A 15 Aug 2005, 11:25

No. The Symbian operating system supports virtual memory (separate/unique virtual address space per process), but it has no support for paging/swapping & you can't add such functionality with a user-level application.

Besides, a memory card would be very slow for what such behaviour requires.

apoc_reg 15 Aug 2005, 12:03

N/A wrote:No. The Symbian operating system supports virtual memory (separate/unique virtual address space per process), but it has no support for paging/swapping & you can't add such functionality with a user-level application.
Besides, a memory card would be very slow for what such behaviour requires.

Oh well... it was a nice idea :frown: