What is sharing page in Garbage collection?

Question

'Fundamentals of Memory' section in the MSDN article has following sentance

Each process has its own, separate virtual address space. All processes on the same computer share the same physical memory, and share the page file if there is one.

What is the meaning of page file here?

Answer 1

You can say, Page file is a secondary RAM which sits on Hard Disk. Every process will have some space allocated on RAM. If the process needs extra memory, then that extra space is given from page file. Usually, the data which is not frequently used is kept in page files.

For more info, visit below page,

http://www.overclock.net/t/12192/info-what-is-the-windows-paging-file

I hope this helps.

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Answer 2

It helps me really. Thanks for the quick reply.