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Linux® Kernel Primer, The: A Top-Down Approach for x86 and PowerPC Architectures
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Linux® Kernel Primer, The: A Top-Down Approach for x86 and PowerPC Architectures

by Claudia Salzberg Rodriguez, Gordon Fischer, Steven Smolski
September 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
648 pages
12h 50m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 4. Memory Management

In this chapter

Memory management is the method by which an application running on a computer accesses memory through a combination of hardware and software manipulation. The job of the memory management subsystem is to allocate available memory to requesting processes and to deallocate the memory from a process as it releases it, keeping track of memory as it is handled.

The operating system lifespan can ...

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