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Old 04-03-2006
Error unix memory management

i am looking for the books or web-sites which
explains the unix memory management in detail.

do you know any useful material?
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Old 04-03-2006
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/v...ml/understand/

This is Linux-specific, but really great!
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