December 2004
Intermediate to advanced
976 pages
33h 33m
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Because the Windows system cache manager caches data on a virtual basis, it is given a region of system virtual address spaces to manage (instead of a region of physical memory). The cache manager then divides each address space region into 256-KB slots called views, as shown in Figure 11-2. (For a detailed description of the layout of system space, see Chapter 7.)

Figure 11-2. System cache address space
At a file's first I/O (read or write) operation, the cache manager maps a 256-KB view of the 256-KB-aligned region of the file that contains the requested data into a free slot in the system cache address space. For ...
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