1 votes 1 votes How we can improve size of virtual memory? Operating System virtual-memory operating-system + – srestha asked Aug 1, 2018 srestha 642 views answer comment Share Follow See all 8 Comments See all 8 8 Comments reply Shaik Masthan commented Aug 1, 2018 reply Follow Share By decreasing the page size... but we can enter into thrashing 0 votes 0 votes abhishekmehta4u commented Aug 1, 2018 reply Follow Share If page size is decrese then ho virtual mem increse?? 0 votes 0 votes Shaik Masthan commented Aug 1, 2018 reply Follow Share allocate less no.of pages to a process 0 votes 0 votes neeraj33negi commented Aug 1, 2018 reply Follow Share The size of virtual memory is limited by size of the disk and upper limit set by the OS. But we can put more processes in virtual memory with help of page sharing if similar processes are being spawned . Can someone explain how decreasing page size improves size of virtual memory? 0 votes 0 votes Shaik Masthan commented Aug 1, 2018 reply Follow Share Size of anything is fixed, we can't increase them.... How we can improve size of virtual memory? it means how effectively we can use it. 0 votes 0 votes Soumya29 commented Aug 1, 2018 reply Follow Share I am not sure but the size of VM is restricted by number of address lines(size of MAR) and size of the disk. So by increasing disk size, size of VM can be improved but still architecture(address lines) limits VM size. 0 votes 0 votes srestha commented Aug 1, 2018 reply Follow Share Means in a word Size of Virtual Memory cannot be improved?? as there is no physical existence of it? 0 votes 0 votes srestha commented Aug 1, 2018 reply Follow Share The page-reference string has length p; n distinct page numbers occur in it. which tell VM size is different from number of pages 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.