Advanced Operating Systems   COMP9242 2002/S2

UNSW

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Origins of sparse address-space use Modern OS features: memory-mapped files, dynamically-linked libraries, mapping IPC (server-based systems)... This problem gets worse 64-bit address spaces: bigger page tables. An in-depth study of such effects can be found in [UNS$^+$94].