Memory Management (Memory Management)

• About Memory Management - Win32 apps

  Each process on 32-bit Microsoft Windows has its own virtual address space that enables addressing up to 4 gigabytes of memory.

• Virtual Address Space (Memory Management) - Win32 apps

  The virtual address space for a process is the set of virtual memory addresses that it can use. The address space for each process is private and cannot be accessed by other processes unless it is shared.

• Virtual Address Space and Physical Storage - Win32 apps

  The maximum amount of physical memory supported by Microsoft Windows ranges from 2 GB to 2 TB, depending on the version of Windows.

• Virtual Memory Functions - Win32 apps

  The virtual memory functions enable a process to manipulate or determine the status of pages in its virtual address space.

• Memory Pools - Win32 apps

  The memory manager creates the following memory pools that the system uses to allocate memory: nonpaged pool and paged pool.

• Virtual Address Space (Programming Guide for 64-bit Windows) - Win32 apps

  By default, 64-bit Microsoft Windows-based applications have a user-mode address space of several terabytes.

• Using the Memory Management Functions - Win32 apps

  The following examples demonstrate the use of the memory management functions.

• Memory Performance Information - Win32 apps

  Memory performance information is available from the memory manager through the system performance counters and through functions such as GetPerformanceInfo, GetProcessMemoryInfo, and GlobalMemoryStatusEx.

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