Beginner memory question.

[bauss]

On Saturday, 16 April 2022 at 20:48:15 UTC, Adam Ruppe wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 April 2022 at 20:41:25 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:
>> Is virtual memory entering into the equation?
>
> Probably. Memory allocated doesn't physically exist until 
> written to a lot of the time.

You can also exceed your RAM in a lot of cases, as the OS will 
just start using your disk for RAM instead, so just because you 
have 8 GB of ram doesn't always mean you can only use 8 GM of RAM 
(in theory of course.)