“Fragmented memory” describes all of a system’s unusable free memory. These resources remain unused because the memory allocator responsible for allocating them cannot make the memory available. This ...

“Fragmented memory” describes all of a system's unusable free memory. These resources remain unused because the memory allocator responsible for allocating them cannot make the memory available. This ...

Typically, we see a 4X increase in memory size every 3 years to cater to the needs of new generation devices. Deep submicron devices contain a large number of memories which demands lower area and ...

In C and C++, it can be very convenient to allocate and de-allocate blocks of memory as and when needed. This is certainly standard practice in both languages and almost unavoidable in C++. However, ...

If your production Linux system is logging memory allocation failures, it might still be able to keep running. But developers want to keep an eye on which code can survive a shortage of memory. In ...

Video card maker ATI Technologies has announced a memory technology that will allow graphics cards to store some data into system RAM. Using what it characterizes as "intelligent memory allocation ...