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
Connects the PFN database, Standby, Modified, memory compression, and the page file to explain where a physical page goes after it leaves the Working Set.
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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
Connects VirtualAlloc, VADs, page tables, the TLB, demand-zero faults, and hard faults to explain the moment a virtual address is assigned physical RAM.
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What Does Windows' "Memory Usage" Actually Mean? — Reading Working Set, Private Bytes, Commit, and the Page File Correctly
Task Manager Memory, Working Set, Private Bytes, and Commit differ. See how virtual and physical memory relate, the page file's role, and which metrics revea...