about memory management in operating system

1. Memory management
Presented by
M . Lavanya
M.sc(CS & IT)
Nadar Saraswathi college of arts & science.
Vadapudupatti ,Theni.

2. MEMORY MANAGEMENT
• Main Memory refers to a physical memory that is the internal
memory to the computer.
• The word main is used to distinguish it from external mass storage
devices such as disk drives. Main memory is also known as RAM.
• The computer is able to change only data that is in main memory.
• Therefore, every program we execute and every file we access must
be copied from a storage device into main memory.

3. MEMORY MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS.
Five requirements:
• Relocation
• Protection
• Sharing
• Logical organization
• Physical organization

4. • Relocation
– programmer cannot know where the program will be placed in
memory when it is executed
– a process may be relocated in main memory due to swapping
– swapping enables the OS to have a larger pool of ready-to-
execute processes
– memory references in code (for both instructions and data) must
be translated to actual physical memory address

5. • Protection
– processes should not be able to reference memory locations
in another process without permission
– impossible to check addresses at compile time in programs
since the program could be relocated
– address references must be checked at run time by
hardware

6. • Sharing
– must allow several processes to access a common portion
of main memory without compromising protection
• cooperating processes may need to share access to the
same data structure
• better to allow each process to access the same copy of
the program rather than have their own separate copy

7. • Logical Organization
– users write programs in modules with different characteristics
• instruction modules are execute-only
• data modules are either read-only or read/write
• some modules are private others are public
– To effectively deal with user programs, the OS and hardware
should support a basic form of module to provide the required
protection and sharing.

8. • Physical Organization
– secondary memory is the long term store for programs and
data while main memory holds program and data currently
in use
– moving information between these two levels of memory is
a major concern of memory management (OS)
• it is highly inefficient to leave this responsibility to the
application programmer

9. FIXED PARTITIONING
• Split the physical memory into partitions into each a process
may be assigned
Two difficulties:
• The programmer may have to rewrite a program in order to fit
into even the largest available partition. Overlaying may be
used.
• Internal fragmentation typically results--there's memory that
is unused within each partition.

10. PLACEMENT ALGORITHM
• With equal sized partitions there's not much to
consider. Swapping out for more throughput may require
some policies
• For unequal sized partitions, the programs may be queued to
use the "best" partition. This may not give the best throughput
as some partitions may go unused.

11. RELOCATION
• Because of swapping and compaction, a process may occupy
different main memory locations during its lifetime
• Hence physical memory references by a process cannot be
fixed
• This problem is solved by distinguishing between logical
address and physical address

12. VIRTUAL MEMORY
• Virtual Memory is a space where large programs can store
themselves in form of pages while their execution and only the
required pages or portions of processes are loaded into the
main memory. This technique is useful as large virtual memory
is provided for user programs when a very small physical
memory is there.
Benefits of Virtual Memory :
• Large programs can be written, as virtual space available is
huge compared to physical memory.
• Less I/O required, leads to faster and easy swapping of
processes.
• More physical memory available, as programs are stored on
virtual memory, so they occupy very less space on actual
physical memory.

13. PAGING
• Main memory is partition into equal fixed-sized chunks (of
relatively small size)
• Trick: each process is also divided into chunks of the same
size called pages
• The process pages can thus be assigned to the available chunks
in main memory called frames (or page frames)
• Consequence: a process does not need to occupy a contiguous
portion of memory

15. PAGE TABLE
• The OS now needs to maintain (in main memory) a page table
for each process
• Each entry of a page table consist of the frame number where
the corresponding page is physically located
• The page table is indexed by the page number to obtain the
frame number
• A free frame list, available for pages, is maintained

16. ADDRESS TRANSLATION IN PAGING
SYSTEM
Address translation by paging is similar to segmentation. A
virtual address is comprised of a page number and an offset.
Page tables are used to translate the page number into a page
frame number; that is, the physical location of the page in
main memory.