On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 08:53 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > All this avoids the question I asked. VM processing involves paging > > between a memory space and an address space. The question is where is > > the address space of the process? It can't be the computer's real > > memory because that would be the memory space. > > Now you're confusing me. What do you mean by "memory space" and "address > space"? Paging involves (among many pther things) moving data between > main memory and a backing store. The data belongs to the "address space" > of a process, or possibly several processes in the case of shared pages. > "Address space" is a logical concept meaning the range of addressable > memory locations in the process virtual memory. I've no idea what you > mean by "memory space" unless its the physical main memory. > > poc > One more thing. Let us forget about your using the term address space in a reasonable but inappropriate way for my question. What do you think the nature of the backing store is and where is it and how is it used? -- ======================================================================= Do students of Zen Buddhism do Om-work? ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
