What is the need of computer memory?

Memory is needed to store data and retrieve it when needed. Computers have two kind of memory, one is primary and another is secondary. Secondary memory is commonly known as just storage. read more

Computer programmers no longer need to worry about where the memory is physically stored or whether the user's computer will have enough memory. It also allows multiple types of memory to be used. For example, some memory can be stored in physical RAM chips while other memory is stored on a hard drive (e.g. in a swapfile), functioning as an extension of the cache hierarchy. read more

Computer memory is the storage space in the computer, where data is to be processed and instructions required for processing are stored. The memory is divided into large number of small parts called cells. read more

System may be running on low physical memory that is not allowing the loader to load all the pages of executable into memory. read more