diff --git a/lectures/02-architectures/architectures.md b/lectures/02-architectures/architectures.md index b22a9df..8c5dd79 100644 --- a/lectures/02-architectures/architectures.md +++ b/lectures/02-architectures/architectures.md @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ - virtual memory - extension of main memory - each process sees its own private address space - - memory is divided into pages for simpler OS management (tipical size 2MB) + - memory is divided into pages for simpler OS management (tipical size 4KiB) - page swapping and page faults when the size of virtual memory is grater than the size of physical - significantly slower access than to main memory (1,000,000 times), even greater need for data locality - rapid virtual to physical memory address mapping with the help of translation lookaside buffer (TLB)