Top "Virtual-memory" questions

Virtual memory is a memory management technique developed for multitasking kernels.

How reduce cassandra virtual memory usage?

Is there a settings in cassandra to reduce it memory usage? I understand that cassandra manages memory well, but for …

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segmentation fault vs page fault

I was wondering what differences and relations are between segmentation fault and page fault? Does segmentation fault only belong to …

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Why 16-bit address with 12-bit offset results in 4KB page size?

I'm reading the "Modern Operating System" book. And I'm confused about the "Page Size". In the book, the author says, …

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virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory

My compilation fails on ubuntu 12.10 with 300mb memory available (750mb total, 350mb to MySQL), 1.5ghz, I am trying to rework …

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Understanding Virtual Address, Virtual Memory and Paging

I've been learning these topics and read many articles and books but they all lack some complementary information and confused …

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psutil virtual memory units of measurement?

When running psutil.virtual_memory() i'm getting output like this: >>psutil.virtual_memory() vmem(total=8374149120L, available=1247768576L) …

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Does every process have its own page table?

Does every process have its own page table or does it simply add it's page entries into one big page …

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Android virtual memory and paging

Can anyone elaborate or provide a link to android memory management. I am confused about Android virtual memory scheme. How …

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What's the difference between page and block in operating system?

I have learned that in an operating system (Linux), the memory management unit (MMU) can translate a virtual address (VA) …

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How to reliably measure available memory in Linux?

Linux /proc/meminfo shows a number of memory usage statistics. MemTotal: 4040732 kB MemFree: 23160 kB Buffers: 163340 kB Cached: 3707080 kB SwapCached: 0 kB …

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