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  2. Memory management (operating systems) - Wikipedia

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    Memory management consists of allocating a partition to a job when it starts and unallocating it when the job ends. Partitioned allocation usually requires some hardware support to prevent the jobs from interfering with one another or with the operating system. The IBM System/360 uses a lock-and-key technique.

  3. Memory management - Wikipedia

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    Memory management (also dynamic memory management, dynamic storage allocation, or dynamic memory allocation) is a form of resource management applied to computer memory.The essential requirement of memory management is to provide ways to dynamically allocate portions of memory to programs at their request, and free it for reuse when no longer needed.

  4. How to allocate more RAM to 'Minecraft' and help your ... - AOL

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    To reallocate RAM to "Minecraft," you'll have to edit the game's settings through whatever launcher app you use.

  5. Extended memory - Wikipedia

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    On x86-based PCs, extended memory is only available with an Intel 80286 processor or higher. Only these chips can directly address more than 1 megabyte of RAM.The earlier 8086/8088 processors can make use of more than 1 MB of RAM if one employs special hardware to make selectable parts of it appear at addresses below 1 MB.

  6. DOS memory management - Wikipedia

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    Expanded memory was a system that allowed application programs to access more RAM than directly visible to the processor's address space. The process was a form of bank switching . When extra RAM was needed, driver software would temporarily make a piece of expanded memory accessible to the processor; when the data in that piece of memory was ...

  7. Memory pool - Wikipedia

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    A simple memory pool module can allocate, for example, three pools at compile time with block sizes optimized for the application deploying the module. The application can allocate, access and free memory through the following interface: Allocate memory from the pools. The function will determine the pool where the required block fits in.

  8. Memory paging - Wikipedia

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    Locking a page file size can be problematic if a Windows application requests more memory than the total size of physical memory and the page file, leading to failed requests to allocate memory that may cause applications and system processes to fail.

  9. Stack-based memory allocation - Wikipedia

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    Allocating more memory on the stack than is available can result in a crash due to stack overflow. This is also why functions that use alloca are usually prevented from being inlined: [2] should such a function be inlined into a loop, the caller would suffer from an unanticipated growth in stack usage, making an overflow much more likely.