I was reading about memory management techniques and was wondering:
Why does every process need its own page table?
thanks.
I was reading about memory management techniques and was wondering: Why does every process
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I was reading about memory management techniques and was wondering:
Why does every process need its own page table?
thanks.
It doesn’t. But every address space needs its own page table, and in most operating systems each process has its own address space.
(The OS for IBM iSeries has only a single page table, since it uses a “single address space” model.)