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OpenVMS Alpha Internals and Data Structures
Memory Management
1st Edition - November 22, 2002
Author: Ruth Goldenberg
Language: English
eBook ISBN:9780080513119
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OpenVMS Alpha Internals and Data Structures: Memory Management is an updateto selected parts of the book OpenVMS AXP Internals and Data Structures Version 1.5 (Digital Press, 199…Read more
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OpenVMS Alpha Internals and Data Structures: Memory Management is an update to selected parts of the book OpenVMS AXP Internals and Data Structures Version 1.5 (Digital Press, 1994). This book covers the extensions to the memory management subsystem of OpenVMS Alpha to allow the operating system and applications to access 64 bits of address space. It emphasizes system data structures and their manipulation by paging and swapping routines and related system services.
It also describes management of dynamic memory, such as nonpaged pool, and support for nonuniform memory access (NUMA) platforms.
This book is intended for systems programmers, technical consultants, application designers, and other computer progressions interested in learning the details of the OpenVMS executive. Teachers and students of graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in operating systems will find this book a valuable study in how theory and practice are resolved in a complex commercial operating system.
THE definitive reference describing how the OpenVMS kernel works Written by a top authority on OpenVMS systems Covers the latest version of OpenVMS
Systems programmers, technical consultants, application designers, and other computer professionals interested in learning the details of the OpenVMS executive
Memory Management Overview; Memory Management Data Structures; Memory Management System Services; Paging Dynamics; Working Set List Dynamics; The Swapper; Pool Management
No. of pages: 466
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: November 22, 2002
Imprint: Digital Press
eBook ISBN: 9780080513119
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Ruth Goldenberg
Ruth Goldenberg is a senior member of the technical staff of Hewlett-Packard Company. She is an eminent authority on OpenVMS and the author of numerous publications about it.
Affiliations and expertise
Consulting software engineer, OpenVMS Operating System Development Group, HP Computer Corporation, Nashua, NH
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