理解physical page||main memory in Computer

• Page

  A page, memory page or virtual page is a fixed-length contigous block of virtual memory, described by a single entry in the page table.

  It is the smallest unit of data for memory mangement in a virtual memory OS.

  A page frame is the smallest fixed-length contiguous block of physical memory into which memory pages are mapped by the OS.

  A transfer of pages between main memory and an auxiliary store, such as a hard disk drive, is referred to as paging or swapping.

• Page table

  A page table is the data structure used by a virual memory system in a computer OS to store the mapping between virtual addresses and physical addresses.

  Virtual addresses are used by the program executed by the accessing process, while physical addresses are used by the hardware, or more specifically, by the RAM subsystem.

• Virtual memory

  Virtual memory, or virtual storage is a memory management technique that provides an “idealized abstraction of the storage resources that are actually available on a give machine” which creates the illusion to users of a very large (main) memory.

• Main memory

  Primary storage (also as main memory, internal memory or prime memory) often referred to simply as memory, is the only on directly accessible to the CPU.

  The CPU continously reads instruction stored there and executes them as required.