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Chapter 7 covers memory management. It lists the goals of memory management and describes the various memory management schemes, which include variable-sized partitions, overlay, swapping, segmentation, paging and demand-paging based virtual memory. It also describes the process virtual address space in file-mapping and distributed shared memory systems. Then it describes memory management in the real mode MTX in detail. These include managing process images as variable-sized partitions, memory compaction and swapping. It also shows how to adjust the process heap size for dynamic memory allocation in user space.
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Wang, K. (2015). Memory Management. In: Design and Implementation of the MTX Operating System. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17575-1_7
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