Review of Taming The Memory Hogs.

Angela Brown was a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University until 2002 with Dr. Todd C. Mowry as her advisor in the Computer Science Department. Dr. Angela Brown worked on thesis research in the area of investigating a fully automatic scheme that enables out-of-core applications to explicitly manage their memory requirements by prefetching pages that will be needed in the near future, and informing the operating system about pages that can be replaced [1]. Dr. Mowry currently …

…demke. Modified June 2001. Accessed August 25, 2003. [2] Internet Todd C. Mowry Carnegie Mellon University. URL address http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~tcm. Modified July 2003. Accessed August 25, 2003. [3] Brown, Angela Demke; Mowry, Todd C. Taming the Memory Hogs: Using Compiler-Inserted Releases to Manage Physical Memory Intelligently. 4th Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation. Carnegie Mellon University. San Diego, California. October 23-25, 2000. [4] Tanenbaum, Andrew S. Modern Operating Systems. Chapter 4 - Memory Management. Second Edition. Prentice Hall, Inc. New Jersey. 2001.