Allocation of physically-contiguous memory buffers is required by many device drivers, but it cannot always be reliably done on long-running Linux systems. That leads to all kinds of unsatisfying ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...

Most modern programming languages use garbage collection, but developers have options for how it is implemented and tuned. Get an overview of how garbage collection works in languages such as Java, ...

The Linux kernel Out of Memory (OOM) killer is not usually invoked on desktop and server computers, because those environments contain sufficient resident memory and swap space, making the OOM ...

“Fragmented memory” describes all of a system’s unusable free memory. These resources remain unused because the memory allocator responsible for allocating them cannot make the memory available. This ...

If your production Linux system is logging memory allocation failures, it might still be able to keep running. But developers want to keep an eye on which code can survive a shortage of memory. In ...

James Jones started his 2016 X.Org Developers Conference (XDC) talk by saying that he would like to make some real progress at the conference on creating a user-space API for allocating memory that is ...

Many virtualization administrators have to face down the complex task of memory allocation in their environments. Regardless of whether an organization uses VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V, ...

Memory allocation to specific neurons (neuronal allocation) and synapses (synaptic allocation) in a neurocircuit is not random; instead, specific mechanisms determine which synapses and neurons go on ...