Whenever MeMS requests memory from the OS (using mmap), it adds a new node to the main chain. Each node of the main chain points to another doubly linked list which we call as sub-chain. This ...

Memory management is one of the core functions of an operating system. It determines how the available physical and virtual memory is allocated, accessed, and protected among different processes ...

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.

It is the easiest memory management technique. In this method, all types of computer’s memory except a small portion which is reserved for the OS is available for one application. For example, MS-DOS ...

How Windows 8’s memory management modifications make ... The lower level changes all revolve around the virtual memory facilities of the operating system: ... The example the company gives is ...

In my lectures, I always like to compare the approaches in the big 3: Windows, Linux and OS X. For example, Linux uses a combined segmentation and paging approach to virtual memory (to separate ...

Heterogeneous memory management combined with server virtualization in datacenters is expected to increase the software and OS management complexity. State-of-the-art solutions rely exclusively on the ...

On modern multicore machines, the memory management typically combines address interleaving in hardware and random allocation in the operating system (OS) to improve performance of both memory and ...

In this installment, the author describes the various techniques used for memory management in an embedded OS. Adapted from “Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition” by Tammy Noergaard ... Example ...