January 2004
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
11h 1m
English
We have seen the four primary views of memory managed by the kernel and utilized by the process threads and PA-RISC hardware. All of the various levels of abstraction would be pointless if we couldn't allocate physical memory when it was time to allow a thread to run.
Having an ample supply of free pages is very important to overall system performance. To this end the kernel employs a swapping or paging system. We examine it next.
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