Allocated memory debugging - Methods of debugging and tracing allocations of memory, detecting leaks, overruns, corruption, etc.

RSIM: Simulating Shared-Memory Multiprocessors with ILP Processors ( Christopher J. Hughes, Vijay S. Pai, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Sarita V. Adve ; IEEE Computer Magazine 2002-02)

Cache-Only Memory Architectures ( Fredrik Dahlgren, Josep Torrellas ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1999-06)

Smarter Memory: Improving Bandwidth for Streamed References ( Sally A. McKee, Robert H. Klenke, Kenneth L. Wright, William A. Wulf, Maximo H. Salinas, James H. Aylor, Alan P. Batson ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1998-07)

Virtual Memory: Issues of Implementation ( Bruce Jacob, Trevor Mudge ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1998-06)

A Cache Visualization Tool ( Eric van der Deijl, Gerco Kanbier, Olivier Temam, Elena D. Granston ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1997-07)

When Caches Aren't Enough: Data Prefetching Techniques ( Steven P. VanderWiel, David J. Lilja ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1997-07)

Associative processing and processors ( Anargyros Krikelis, Charles C. Weems ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1994-11)

Cache Profiling and the SPEC Benchmarks: A Case Study ( Alvin R. Lebeck, David A. Wood ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1994-010)

Constrained-Latency Storage Access ( Richard Staehli, Jonathan Walpole ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1993-03)

A Design and Yield Evaluation Technique for Wafer-Scale Memory ( Koichi Yamashita, Shohei Ikehara ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1992-04)

Error-Control Coding in Computers ( Eiji Fujiwara, Dhiraj K. Pradhan ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1990-07)

Directory-Based Cache Coherence in Large-Scale Multiprocessors ( David Chaiken, Craig Fields, Kiyoshi Kurihara, Anant Agarwal ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1990-06)

Content-Addressable and Associative Memory: Alternatives to the Ubiquitous RAM ( Lawrence Chisvin, R. James Duckworth ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1989-07)

A Case for Direct-Mapped Caches ( Mark D. Hill ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1988-12)

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How can I track down these pesky malloc problems? []

How can I find out how much memory is available? []

How can I allocate arrays or structures bigger than 64K? []

What does the error message "DGROUP exceeds 64K'' mean? []

How can I access memory located at a certain address? []

Unix Programming FAQ How do I find out about a process' memory usage? []

Unix Programming FAQ Why do processes never decrease in size? []

Unix Programming FAQ How can I tell how much memory my system has? []

To ECC Or Not To ECC? [2002/04/26]

Swap Performance in Linux [2002/03/12]

Software Patents on Memory Allocators? [2001/12/13]

How Reliable are USB Memory Keys? [2001/11/26]

How do Software MMU's Work? [ 1999/05/13]

Cache and RAM Limitations [ 1998/11/10]

What the heck is "DGROUP > 64K"? []

How do I fix "automatic data segment exceeds 64K" or "stack plus data exceed 64K"? []

What does this message mean: "A20 already enabled so test is meaning less?" []

How can I access a specific address in the PC's memory? []

How can I read or write my PC's CMOS memory? []

How can I access memory beyond 640K? []

How can I use the protected mode? []

Questions and Answers

py22-vmaps-1.1 - Python Arrays on mmap()

shmap-0.3_1 - Shared-memory-based hashmaps

asmem-1.8 - An AfterStep look-n-feel memory utilization monitor

memtest-2.93.1 - Utility to test for faulty memory subsystem

muse-0.1 - Shows memory usage data

ruby-mmap-0.1.7 - Ruby interface to manage memory-mapped file objects

mob-0.1.0_1 - Memory Organization Benchmarks

stream-1.0 - Synthetic benchmark program that measures sustainable memory bandwidth

p5-IPC-ShareLite-0.08 - A simple interface to access shared memory

p5-IPC-Cache-0.02 - persist data across processes via shared memory

runtime - Runtime memory allocation for multi-dimensional arrays {oss}

malloc.mk - Missing makefile for "malloc" posting {oss}

malloc.patch - Bug fix for "smarter malloc" {oss}

c-gc - C memory garbage collector {oss}

malloc-1.2.0 - debugging version of malloc, V1.2.0 {oss}

mmap-2.2.3 - A SVR3.2 Memory Mapped I/O Driver v2.2.3, {oss}

sharedmem - Shared memory emulation for 4.2BSD {oss}

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RAM Doubler 9.0

MemTurbo Deluxe

RAM Doubler 9.0

FreeMem Professional 4.3

alloca (3) - memory allocator {oss}

malloc free realloc calloc alloca (3) - general memory allocation operations {oss}

calloc (3) - allocate clean memory (zero initialized space) {oss}

malloc free cfree realloc (3) - general memory allocation functions {oss}

valloc (3) - aligned memory allocation function {oss}

bcmp bcopy bzero memccpy memchr memcmp memcpy memmove memset (3) - byte string operations {oss}

bcmp (3) - compare byte string {oss}

bcopy (3) - copy byte string {oss}

bzero (3) - write zeroes to a byte string {oss}

memcpy (3) - copy byte string {oss}

memccpy (3) - copy string until character found {oss}

memchr (3) - locate byte in byte string {oss}

memcmp (3) - compare byte string {oss}

memmove (3) - copy byte string {oss}

memset (3) - write a byte to byte string {oss}

getpagesize (3) - get system page size {oss}

mmap (2) - map files or devices into memory {oss}

mprotect (2) - control the protection of pages {oss}

msync (2) - synchronize a mapped region {oss}

munmap (2) - remove a mapping {oss}

shmat shmdt (2) - map/unmap shared memory {oss}

shmctl (2) - shared memory control operations {oss}

shmget (2) - get shared memory area identifier {oss}

madvise (2) - give advice about use of memory {oss}

mincore (2) - determine residency of memory pages {oss}

minherit (2) - control the inheritance of pages {oss}

mlock munlock (2) - lock (unlock) physical pages in memory {oss}

i386_get_ldt i386_set_ldt (2) - manage i386 per-process Local Descriptor Table entries {oss}

i386_vm86 (2) - set virtual 8086 processor registers and mode {oss}

kvm (3) - kernel memory interface {oss}

kvm_open kvm_openfiles kvm_close (3) - initialize kernel virtual memory access {oss}

kvm_getprocs kvm_getargv kvm_getenvv (3) - access user process state {oss}

kvm_geterr verr errx verrx warn vwarn warnx vwarnx (3) - get error message on kvm descriptor {oss}

kvm_getfiles (3) - survey open files {oss}

kvm_getloadavg (3) - get load average of the system {oss}

kvm_nlist (3) - retrieve symbol table names from a kernel image {oss}

kvm_read kvm_write (3) - read or write kernel virtual memory {oss}

p5-IPC-SharedCache-1.3 - Perl module for managing a SysV IPC shared memory cache

rvm-1.6 - A persistent VM library

dlmalloc-2.6.5 - Small, fast malloc library by Doug Lea

mprof-3.0 - Memory Profiler and Leak Detector.

boehm-gc-6.0 - Garbage collection and memory leak detection for C and C++

electricfence-2.2.2 - Debugging malloc() that uses the VM hardware to detect buffer overruns

libmalloc-1.18 - Small, fast malloc library with comprehensive error checking

Memmem.C - Like strstr(), but for non-text buffers {oss}

Mk_Fp.H - Makes sure the Intel MK_FP() macro is defined {oss,msdos}

Fmemops.H.Fmemops.C - Emulate MSC's _fmemxxx() in Power C, ZTC++, and older TC++ {oss,msdos}

Getseg.H - Get segment and offset of any object {oss,msdos}

Fptr_Add.C - Add any value to a far pointer and normalize far pointers {oss,msdos}

Xms.H, Xms.C, Xmstest.C, Ems.H, Ems.C, Emstest.C - Cliff Rhodes' EMS and XMS support functions {oss,msdos}

Mmodels.Faq - Information on DOS real mode memory models {oss}

Big_Mall.H - Portably allocate memory > 64Kb {oss}

Memrev.H,Memrev.C - Assymetrical memory swap {oss}

Fmemmem.C - Like memmem() above, but for large DOS buffers {oss}

Multi-dimensional array functions {oss}

Snparray.H - Header for multi-dimentional array functions {oss}

Amalloc.C - Multi-dimensional array allocation (limited to <64K on PC) {oss}

Mdalloc.C - Multi-dimentional array allocte and free (any size) {oss}

Mdasort.C - Test program demonstrating array sorting {oss}

Memavail.C - Report available DOS memory {oss}

c-gc - C memory garbage collector {oss}

c-gc - C memory garbage collector {oss}

malloc - A "smarter" malloc {oss}

mmap - A SVR3.2 Memory Mapped I/O Driver v2.2.3 {oss}

sharedmem - Shared memory emulation for 4.2BSD {oss}

Gmemusage - Graphical memory usage viewer. {unknown}

Libraries and Functions

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Data structures (In memory) - Data structures in memory. Queues, lists, graphs, trees, etc.

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