Mysteries of Memory Management Revealed

This is an excellent talk by Mark Russinovich about how Windows deals with memory. I would recommend any IT person at least have a basic understanding of how Windows memory management works.

The talk goes over virtual memory and physical memory. How Processes and the Windows OS uses this memory. How to size a paging file and how Windows uses a paging file.

It also goes over some neat tools you can use to take a deeper look at Windows memory. These tools could be helpful to a programmer trying to understand what the memory in their program is doing.

Mysteries of Memory Management Revealed – Part 1

Mysteries of Memory Management Revealed – Part 2

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