University of the People
Crystal Cummings
Operating System I CS 2301 – 17.05.2018
1. Provide screen shot of resulting page after running the Process Explorer utility
2. Comment of your physical memory usage and list or highlight on screen shot
3. Comment of your kernel memory usage and list or highlight on screen shot
4. Comment of your paging and list or highlight on screen shot
5. Describe how this usage pattern changes when you start the program, a minute after you have started this program, and when you terminate this program
1. Provide screen shot of resulting page after running the Process Explorer utility
2. Comment of your physical memory usage and list or highlight on screen shot …show more content…
This is because I am using the windows OS in a virtual machine for personal purposes and as a result I have assign to it the minimum RAM possible in order to conserve my own RAM of MAC.
We see here that the total memory is in kilobytes instead of Megabytes, and underneath we have the available memory space.
3.Comment of your kernel memory usage and list or highlight on screen shot
Here we have the Kernel Memory, which is also expressed in kilobytes, as we know the kernel memory is loaded in a special protected area of memory to prevent it from being overwritten by other programs or say it by other parts of the operating system. In general, the kernel memory is responsible for memory management, task management and disk management. Here the paged part refers to the virtual memory part that is dedicated to the kernel, while the Non-paged refers to the dedicated kernel memory.
4. Comment of your paging and list or highlight on screen