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Chapter 9: Virtual Memory

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Objectives

Background

Virtual Memory That is Larger Than Physical Memory

Virtual-address Space

Shared Library Using Virtual Memory

Demand Paging

Transfer of a Paged Memory to Contiguous Disk Space

Valid-Invalid Bit

Page Table When Some Pages Are Not in Main Memory

Page Fault

Page Fault (Cont.)

Steps in Handling a Page Fault

Performance of Demand Paging

Demand Paging Example

Process Creation

Copy-on-Write

Before Process 1 Modifies Page C

After Process 1 Modifies Page C

What happens if there is no free frame?

Page Replacement

Need For Page Replacement

Basic Page Replacement

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Page Replacement Algorithms

Graph of Page Faults Versus The Number of Frames

First-In-First-Out (FIFO) Algorithm

FIFO Page Replacement

FIFO Illustrating Belady’s Anomaly

Optimal Algorithm

Optimal Page Replacement

Least Recently Used (LRU) Algorithm

LRU Page Replacement

LRU Algorithm (Cont.)

Use Of A Stack to Record The Most Recent Page References

LRU Approximation Algorithms

Second-Chance (clock) Page-Replacement Algorithm

Counting Algorithms

Allocation of Frames

Fixed Allocation

Priority Allocation

Global vs. Local Allocation

Thrashing

Thrashing (Cont.)

Demand Paging and Thrashing

Locality In A Memory-Reference Pattern

Working-Set Model

Working-set model

Keeping Track of the Working Set

Page-Fault Frequency Scheme

Memory-Mapped Files

Memory Mapped Files

Memory-Mapped Shared Memory in Windows

Allocating Kernel Memory

Buddy System

Buddy System Allocator

Slab Allocator

Slab Allocation

Other Issues -- Prepaging

Other Issues – Page Size

Other Issues – TLB Reach

Other Issues – Program Structure

Other Issues – I/O interlock

Reason Why Frames Used For I/O Must Be In Memory

Operating System Examples

Windows XP

Solaris

Solaris 2 Page Scanner

End of Chapter 9

Author: Silberschatz, galvin, and Gagne

Homepage: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/avi/os-book/os7/index.html

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