Articles Tagged “Memory Management”
4 articles tagged “Memory Management”, newest first.
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The Depths of Windows Memory (Part 3) — Section Objects and Copy-on-Write: What DLLs and File Mappings Really Are
This article connects section objects, image and data mappings, the shared cache, and copy-on-write to explain how DLLs and shared memory share physical pages.
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The Depths of Windows Memory (Part 2) — The Life of a Physical Page: Five Lists and the Truth About the Page File
This article connects the PFN database, Standby, Modified, memory compression, and the page file to explain where a physical page goes after it leaves the Wo...
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The Depths of Windows Memory (Part 1) — The Moment a Virtual Address Becomes Physical RAM: A Page Fault from Start to Finish
This article connects VirtualAlloc, VADs, page tables, the TLB, demand-zero faults, and hard faults to explain the moment a virtual address is assigned physi...
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What Does Windows' "Memory Usage" Actually Mean? — Correctly Reading Working Set, Private Bytes, Commit, and the Page File
Task Manager's Memory, Working Set, Private Bytes, and Commit are not the same figure. This article explains the relationship between Windows virtual and phy...