Note that as shown here, a process may have a large address space, but it is sparse, meaning that small regions (pages) of the address space refer to physical memory through the page tables.
注意这里的显示，进程可能有一个大的地址空间，但是很少见，就是说小的地址空间的区域(页面)通过页表指向物理内存。
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