11. Memory Management under Unix

One of the numerous tasks the Unix kernel performs while the machine is up is to manage memory. In this section, we explore relevant terms (such as physical vs. virtual memory) as well as some of the basic concepts behind memory management.

11.1. Physical vs. virtual memory
11.2. What is a page of memory?
11.3. Cache memory
11.4. How the kernel organizes memory:
11.5. Paging vs. swapping

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11. Memory Management under Unix