Memory Management: Paging, Segmentation, Virtual Memory

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Memory Management in Operating Systems

When the operating system (OS) loads a program into memory, it needs to locate code and data, allocate a stack, and initiate its execution. The processor, working with the operating system, translates logical addresses into physical ones.

Requirements for Memory Management

  • Relocation: A process might be swapped out to secondary memory (disk) and later reloaded into a different location. The programmer doesn’t know where the program will reside, and this location
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