Until recently, an explanation of memory management would have amounted to a description of a computer’s virtual memory implementation. Now however, memory management encompasses organizing ...

As memory management in the Mac OS developed and OS X debuted, the utility of RAM Doubler fell off. However, in today's preview of the upcoming OS X Mavericks at WWDC, Apple announced a new memory ...

Memory management is a critical aspect of modern operating systems, ensuring efficient allocation and deallocation of system memory. Linux, as a robust and widely used operating system, employs ...

or in the main memory heap. The types of system calls typically fall under the types of functions being supported by the OS, so they include file systems management (i.e., opening/modifying files), ...

This has two effects; it makes booting take longer, because the services all have to start before the operating system will log in, and these services use system memory. To counteract this first ...

The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins ... and heap to grow into each other, the operating system prevents that event, and any program that ...

Again, the OS treats memory as one large one-dimensional array, called a memory map. Either a hardware component integrated in the master CPU or on the board does the conversion between logical and ...

I debated posting this in Microsoft OS & Software Colloquium but thought ... the first of which touches on the memory management issue: I really think Windows is a problem. Like I said earlier ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Windows 8 will have a smaller memory footprint than previous versions, providing better ...

In OS X one aspect of the virtual memory system ... Therefore, instead of using the purge command or other memory management tools to "free RAM," it may be best to reserve these for determining ...