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Unit 6: Memory Management (II)

6.6 Review Questions Notes

1. Elucidate the concept of global memory allocation.
2. Illustrate various events that take place when memory is assigned for every instance of
the database manager.
3. What are the different database configuration parameters that find out the size of the
application group memory?

4. What configurations adjustments are to be made if encountering memory errors while
attempting to connect to a database? Discuss.
5. Explain the concept of managing memory in Windows operating system.

6. Illustrate the concept of system resources and system memory.
7. What are the two areas of memory that are restricted to 64K? Illustrate.
8. Generate a chart that displays the memory assigned for each particular purpose by the
various operating systems.
9. Make distinction between user and GDI.
10. As you run a variety of applications, each application further reduces these system resources.
Comment.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. event 2. partition
3. appgroup_mem_sz 4. instance_memory
5. Maxappls 6. max_connections

7. database_memory 8. database_memory
9. maxagents 10. global
11. memory 12. System Resources
13. User 14. GDI

15. fault

6.7 Further Readings

Books Brent E. Rector, Win32 Programming, Addison-Wesley
Charles Petzold, Programming Windows, Charles Petzold
Roger Mayne, Windows and Graphics Programming with Visual C++.NET, World
Scientific

Online link ldp.org/LDP/tlk/mm/memory.html

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