Understanding Virtual Memory

gns24 wrote: post #5

I've found the set of short articles on memory here to be excellent: http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/page-cache-the-affair-b...

Those are amazing! Thank you for sharing.

Re: Understanding Virtual Memory

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Sep 25, 2011, 1:54 PM UTC

gns24 wrote: post #5

I've found the set of short articles on memory here to be excellent: http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/page-cache-the-affair-b...

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Re: Understanding Virtual Memory

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Post by f3r3nc » Sun, Sep 25, 2011, 1:58 PM UTC

keeperofdakeys wrote: post #4

Here are some other great resources on understanding how the OS (in this case linux) manages the memory, and how the hardware works. http://tldp.org/LDP/tlk/mm/memory.html http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/

The LWN article is from What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory: http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf also discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511990

Re: Understanding Virtual Memory

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Post by ______ » Sun, Sep 25, 2011, 2:29 PM UTC

I love seeing links like this on HN: you can actually learn something, not just read some opinionated article :)

Re: Understanding Virtual Memory

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Post by BlueZeniX » Wed, Sep 28, 2011, 8:24 PM UTC

Makes me wonder how fast OS level garbage collection could be, without the need to have a virtual memory layer in between...