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| | cpu.land
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| | Curious exactly what happens when you run a program on your computer? Learn how multiprocessing works, what system calls really are, how computers manage memory with hardware interrupts, and how Linux loads executables.
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| | We have all seen discussions go like this: someone first complains that an application like Google Chrome is wasteful because it uses multiple GBs of memory. Someone else comes along and says that memory is there to be used for speed and therefore this is the correct behavior: if the computer has multiple GBs of free memory, an application such as Chrome should make use of all the available memory in the form of a cache to be as responsive as possible. Makes sense, right? Yes, it does makes sense-as long...
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| | In our last post we covered how x86 logical address is translated into linear address. In this one we will look at translation from linear to physical. We will use the terms 'virtual address' and 'linear address' interchangeably. A piece of hardware called paging unit is responsible for converting virtual addresses to physical. However, the...
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