They would, for example, have much more memory allocated to them.

This way, the amount of physical memory allocated for the process does not increase until data is written.

Programs were allocated physical memory that they could use as they needed.

The idea is that many systems dynamically allocate memory as needed.

It may also need to allocate new memory if the existing capacity isn't sufficient.

However, it still holds on to the memory allocated to it.

A program thus conceived is unlikely to be allowed to allocate sufficient memory.

Each task believes that it has real memory allocated.

This function will free the memory allocated by the function.

An insufficient amount of memory allocated to the shared pool can cause performance degradation.