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    Chapter 9. Virtual Memory Management

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    Hub: engineering

    Part of the series

    Demand Paging

    1. Basic concepts
    2. Performance of demand paging

    Copy-On-Write

    Page Replacement

    1. Basic Page Replacement
    2. First In First Out Page Replacement
    3. Optimal Page Replacement
    4. Least Recently Used Page Replacement
    5. LRU Approximation Page Replacement
    6. Counting Based Page Replacement
      1. Additional-Reference-Bits Algorithm
      2. Second-chance algorithm
      3. Enhanced second-chance algorithm
    7. Page-Buffering algorithms
    8. Applications and Page Replacement

    Allocation of frames

    1. minimum number of frames
    2. allocation algorithms
    3. global versus local allocation

    Thrashing

    1. causes
    2. working-set model
    3. page-fault frequency

    Memory-mapped Files

    1. Basic mechanism
    2. Shared memory in the win32 API
    3. Memory-mapped I/O

    Allocating Kernel Memory

    1. Buddy system
    2. Slab allocation

    Other considerations

    1. Prepaging
    2. Page size
    3. TLB reach
    4. Inverted page table
    5. Program structure
    6. I/O interlock

    Operating System Examples

    1. Windows XP
    2. Solaris

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