Windows Memory Management

• Virtual memory manager (VMM)

  • Executive component responsible for managing memory

• Lazy allocation

  • Avoid allocating memory until necessary

• Prefetching

  • Move pages from disk to main memory before they are needed

• Pagefile

  • Stores pages that do not fit in main memory
  • Windows XP supports up to 16 pagefiles

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