When you run into memory management news articles or conference papers, please link them here in reverse chronological order. Thank you.

December 2005

• Plans for DragonFly BSD 1.5 contain a cache coherency management system (CCMS). This looks like a subtle, yet significant, change from traditional BSD memory management.

October 2005

• OpenBSD malloc has been modernized in 3.8, adding interesting security features.

• LWN Adaptive file readahead for the 2.6 Linux kernel, developed by Wu Fengguang.

September 2005

• LWN Swap prefetching patch by Con Kolivas.

• LWN ZONE_DMA32 proposal by Andi Kleen.

• LWN Predictive per-task write throttling by Andrea Arcangeli.

August 2005

• LWN CLOCK-Pro page replacement, explained by Jon Corbet.