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Physical Frame Number (PFN)

Physical Frame Number (PFN)

Mar 22, 20251 min read

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Physical Frame Number (PFN)

When using paging the operating system breaks up physical memory into frames. The physical frame number is an index in the operating system abstraction of RAM which acts as one contiguous block. This with an offset can get mapped to a location on RAM by the memory controller.


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