Dealing with dynamic memory traditionally has been one of the most awkward issues of C and C++ programming. It is not surprising that some supposedly easier languages, such as Java, have introduced ...

Windows 11/10 reports how much physical memory is currently installed on your computer along with how much memory is available to the operating system and the hardware reserved memory. Windows 11/10 ...

I've seen programs where there's a correlation between running out of memory and dying with a segfault, but I don't get the connection. I know a segmentation fault is when you try to access memory you ...

Write program to run in parallel? Yes. Did you remember to use a Scalable Memory Allocator? No? Then read on … In my experience, making sure “memory allocation” for a program is ready for parallelism ...

The disk cache in OS X can sometimes use a fair amount of the system's RAM, and clearing it can help you figure out how much RAM your applications and system processes are using. Topher, an avid Mac ...

The once-dominant handset maker BlackBerry is busy squashing BadAlloc bugs in its QNX real-time operating system used in cars in medical devices. The potential danger from a raft of memory-allocation ...

In “Memory Allocation Strategies for Real Time Operating System in Context with Embedded Devices,” Dipti Diwase, Shraddha Shah, Tushar Diwase, and Priya at the G.H.Raisoni College of Engineering ...

CISA today warned that IoT and OT security flaws known as BadAlloc impact BlackBerry's QNX Real Time Operating System (RTOS) used by critical infrastructure organizations BadAlloc is a collection of ...

Reserving memory for specific purposes. At startup, operating systems and applications reserve fixed amounts of memory (RAM) and may allocate more as needed. Although a virtual memory function ...