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Operating Systems - David Vernon

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Memory Management<br />

Swapping<br />

– memory management using the<br />

Buddy System<br />

» if a process is now swapped out of memory:<br />

its block is added back to the appropiate list<br />

if two blocks in that list are adjacent (i.e. they form<br />

one contiguous segment of memory) they are<br />

merged, removed from that list, and added to the list<br />

of the next bigger size blocks.<br />

this list is then checked to see if it is possible to<br />

merge,<br />

and so on.<br />

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

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