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Although virtual memory is beneficial at times, why can it also be detrimental?

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this is because the fact that virtual memory is run through the internet or a certain browser.

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Virtual memory can also be detrimental because of the possibility of thrashing due to excessive paging and page faults. In this case, the system will only be paging the pages but it will not execute them.
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