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  • Give an overview of physical and virtual memory

  • Describe the different structures associated with virtual memory and explain their purposes

  • Explain how memory is mapped from physical to virtual and vice versa.

  • Explain how pages of memory are made and kept available for process/thread execution.

  • Describe how swap space is managed

  • Describe how process structures are set up in memory

  • Understand how and why memory pages are allocated, freed up, and recovered