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 ...

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), ...

One method of memory management is known as paging. Memory is broken up into fixed-size blocks, known as pages. Different operating systems allocate their own size to pages. For example ...

This excerpt offers a introduction and review of embedded operating systems ... so the programmer must deallocate memory manually via the free() system call. Example 14: Jbed Memory Management and ...

Although additional system modules may be loaded as needed, the main part, known as the "kernel" resides in memory ... to" the operating system for all user interface and file management operations.

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 ...

A new post on the Building Windows 8 blog outlines the memory usage goals of Microsoft's next-gen operating system and some of the steps the company has taken to achieve them. One method of ...

Different operating systems allocate their own size to pages. For example, memory pages in modern operating systems are typically 4 kilobytes (KB) in size. When a program is run, it is loaded into ...