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title: Memory Management
description: Memory management is the process of controlling and coordinating computer memory. Learners will understand how operating systems allocate space to running programs, manage virtual memory, handle paging and segmentation, and optimize system resource utilization.
category: programming-tech
subcategory: operating-systems
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/memory-management
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# Memory Management

Memory management is the process of controlling and coordinating computer memory. Learners will understand how operating systems allocate space to running programs, manage virtual memory, handle paging and segmentation, and optimize system resource utilization.

## Available Resources

3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. OSDev Wiki - Memory Management

Community wiki overview for hobbyist kernel developers, explaining physical and virtual address spaces, segmentation, paging, and allocator design, with links to implementation pages. Readers gain the vocabulary and design choices needed to write their own kernel's memory manager.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://wiki.osdev.org/Memory_Management

**Tags:** operating-systems, paging, virtual-memory, kernel-development, memory-allocation

### 2. xv6 OS Source

MIT's small Unix-like teaching kernel for RISC-V, published with source code and a companion commentary book. Reading and modifying it shows concretely how page tables, kernel and user address spaces, physical page allocation, and traps are implemented.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2023/xv6.html

**Tags:** operating-systems, xv6, risc-v, page-tables, virtual-memory

### 3. osdev.org

OSDev.org is a community-driven resource and wiki for operating system development. It offers tutorials, articles, and sample code on topics like kernels, bootloaders, memory management, drivers, and other low-level OS concepts, plus forums for discussion.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://osdev.org

**Tags:** websites, technology-computer-science, computer-sciences

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