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Memory Management<br />

Memory management with swapping<br />

– What if there is not enough memory to<br />

hold all processes?<br />

– We move processes back and forth<br />

between memory and disk<br />

– This is called swapping<br />

– Typically, when we do this we allow the<br />

partitions to change size: variable<br />

partitions<br />

– This means we need to keep track of<br />

Copyright © 2007 <strong>David</strong> <strong>Vernon</strong> (www.vernon.eu)<br />

memory usage (memory management)

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