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 [http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2005-12/msg00040.html 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
[http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/10/20/openbsd_3_8.html?page=6 OpenBSD malloc] has been modernized in 3.8, adding interesting security features.
LWN [http://lwn.net/Articles/155510/ Adaptive file readahead] for the 2.6 Linux kernel, developed by Wu Fengguang.
September 2005
LWN [http://lwn.net/Articles/153353/ Swap prefetching] patch by Con Kolivas.
LWN [http://lwn.net/Articles/152462/ ZONE_DMA32] proposal by Andi Kleen.
LWN [http://lwn.net/Articles/152635/ Predictive per-task write throttling] by Andrea Arcangeli.
August 2005
LWN [http://lwn.net/Articles/147879/ CLOCK-Pro page replacement], explained by Jon Corbet.
