With memory pages shared among applications, sometimes it’s hard to tell how much you’ll really save by killing that memory hog. Two new memory metrics offer help for busy administrators. Anybody who ...

This post explains how to create a live kernel memory dump file using Task Manager. Microsoft has introduced a new troubleshooting feature in the Windows operating system to help administrators ...

Unfortunately for kernel developers, allocating memory in the kernel is not as simple as allocating memory in user space. A number of factors contribute to the complication, among them: The kernel is ...

Microsoft is testing a new diagnostic tool in Windows 11 that lets you create live kernel memory dumps without disrupting the operation of Windows. A live kernel dump is a snapshot of the kernel's ...

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 ...

The Linux kernel provides support for memory management, interprocess communication mechanisms, interrupt management, and TCP / IP networking. The directory structure separates architecture-dependent ...