how do applications (and OS) handle very big files?
- by DrStrangeLove
For instance, i have video file which is 11.8 Gb, but my RAM memory only 2 Gb..
How does VLC (or other software) handle it? How do they load it into memory?
I used VMMap tool (from sysinternals) to take a look at memory, and i saw:
private 160000K
working set 100000K
Obviously, it's much less than 11.8 Gb -So how did it happen?
This question is not only about video.
I'd like to know how computer, in general, handles very large files.