In Part 4, the author described the various techniques used for memory management in an embedded OS. In this installment, the author describes Linux memory management and the kernel memory space.

Understanding Linux memory management—page tables, swapping, and memory allocation—enables system administrators and developers to optimize performance and troubleshoot issues effectively. With tools ...

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The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins’ book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR; (April 12, 2004), used with ...

Virtual Memory and Paging. Paging is a memory management scheme that eliminates the need for contiguous allocation of physical memory. The operating system will have an address translation hardware ...

Mauricio Lin is a software engineer at Nokia's Institute of Technology (INdT) located in Manaus/Brazil. Mauricio has worked with Linux memory management for embedded systems since 2003. He also has ...

After rolling out to Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux, version 73 of Chrome OS is now available.Notable features include Linux support on Chromebooks managed by enterprise admins, settings changes ...