Reserving memory for specific purposes. At startup, operating systems and applications reserve fixed amounts of memory (RAM) and may allocate more as needed. Although a virtual memory function ...

Embedded systems such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices and single-board computers possess limited memory and processing ...

Explore Common Causes of (Internal and External) Memory Fragmentation and How To Avoid It. Plus, Compare First, Best & Worst Fit Allocation Algorithms.

Reserving memory moment to moment, as needed, without having to reserve a fixed amount ahead of time. Modern operating systems perform dynamic memory allocation for their own use.

In “Memory Allocation Strategies for Real Time Operating System in Context with Embedded Devices,” Dipti Diwase, Shraddha Shah, Tushar Diwase, and Priya ...

I ran into this interesting article on the status of PS3's Operating System and API memory footprint, as of PS3-Game-OS 1.60.Firstly, as many know, 360's entire Operating System, with all running ...

A critical part of any parallel program is scalable memory allocation, which includes use of new as well as explicit calls to malloc, calloc, or realloc. Options include TBBmalloc (Intel Threading ...

CISA today warned that IoT and OT security flaws known as BadAlloc impact BlackBerry's QNX Real Time Operating System (RTOS) used by critical infrastructure organizations.