On a system with a very large Virtual Memory Address space,
The virtual memory table can be very large.
Assume:
Page and page frame is 4K (common cluster size) 2^12
Real memory is 512 MB 2^29
Virtual memory space is 4 GB 2^32
Table:
( 29 bits page id + 1 bit P/A + 1 bit dirty + additional flags)
* 2^20 entries = about 4 MB