Memory management is a critical aspect of modern operating systems, ensuring efficient allocation and deallocation of system memory. Linux, as a robust and widely used operating system, employs ...
Linux processes are made up of text, data, and BSS static segments; in addition, each process has its own stack (which is created with the fork system call). Heap space for Linux tasks are allocated ...
For more information about virtual memory management in Linux, see “Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager” by Mel Gorman: www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/vm ...