Memory management

Memory management isactmanaging computer memoryorderoptimizeuseit. This might mean arranging usedfree memoryspeed access ormaximize available storage space.

All reasonably modern operating systems contain their own memory manager, which takes carethis on behalf ofuser. A critical performace bottleneckdisk swapping, andquality ofmemory manager can havebig impact on overall system performance.

DOS-era hackers might remembermemory manager software EMM386QEMM,painsegmented memory,640 kb barrier,highupper memory.

See also: virtual memory, pointer, handle, reference (computer science)