With a VM system, you have two primary areas that store information about the active applications and the data it USES — the physical random access memory (RAM) and space allocated on hard drives.

使用VM系统，您有两个主要区域来存储有关活动应用程序及其使用的数据的信息——物理随机访问存储器(RAM)和硬盘驱动器上分配的空间。

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Ran out of virtual memory. To prevent this condition, you must free up more space on your primary hard disk.

虚拟内存不足。把硬盘多腾出些空间(用来做虚拟内存)，就能避免这种情况。

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In other words, instead of using memory as a temporary storage space for data retrieved from disk, memory can play a more primary role.

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