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HTML
198 lines
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HTML
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>Memory Management</TITLE
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TITLE="Allocating disk space"
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NAME="MEMORY-MANAGEMENT"
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>Chapter 6. Memory Management</H1
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>Table of Contents</B
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>6.1. <A
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HREF="vm-intro.html"
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>What is virtual memory?</A
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><DT
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>6.2. <A
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HREF="swap-space.html"
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>Creating a swap space</A
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><DT
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>6.3. <A
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HREF="using-swap.html"
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>Using a swap space</A
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><DT
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>6.4. <A
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HREF="sharing-swap.html"
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>Sharing swap spaces with other operating systems</A
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><DT
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>6.5. <A
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HREF="swap-allocation.html"
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>Allocating swap space</A
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><DT
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>6.6. <A
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HREF="buffer-cache.html"
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>The buffer cache</A
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>"Minnet, jag har tappat mitt minne,
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är jag svensk eller finne, kommer inte ihåg..."</SPAN
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>
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(Bosse Österberg)
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</P
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>A Swedish drinking song, (rough) translation: ``Memory, I
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have lost my memory. Am I Swedish or Finnish? I can't
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remember''</P
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><P
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> This section describes the Linux memory management
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features, i.e., virtual memory and the disk buffer cache.
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The purpose and workings and the things the system administrator
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needs to take into consideration are described.</P
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>Allocating disk space</TD
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