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+Memory Management
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+=================
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+Linux memory management subsystem is responsible, as the name implies,
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+for managing the memory in the system. This includes implemnetation of
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+virtual memory and demand paging, memory allocation both for kernel
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+internal structures and user space programms, mapping of files into
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+processes address space and many other cool things.
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+Linux memory management is a complex system with many configurable
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+settings. Most of these settings are available via ``/proc``
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+filesystem and can be quired and adjusted using ``sysctl``. These APIs
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+are described in Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt and in `man 5 proc`_.
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+.. _man 5 proc: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html
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+Here we document in detail how to interact with various mechanisms in
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+the Linux memory management.
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