Reserving memory moment to moment, as needed, without having to reserve a fixed amount ahead of time. Modern operating systems perform dynamic memory allocation for their own use. They may also ...

I recently presented arguments for and against using dynamic memory allocation in C and C++ programs. 1 I do agree that truly safety-critical systems should avoid using dynamic allocation because the ...

Important update 1/29/15: The Nvidia employee who said the company was looking into a GTX 970 driver that would “tune what’s allocated where to further improve performance” has updated his post to ...

The security research group for Azure Defender for IoT, dubbed Section 52, has found a batch of bad memory allocation operations in code used in Internet of Things and operational technology (OT) such ...

Android 15’s new Linux Terminal app is limited to 4GB of memory, which can be insufficient for developers. A workaround involves increasing the zram size, creating a swap file, and adjusting ...

Business owners that need to perform graphics-intensive tasks such as video editing or 3D modeling with their computers often buy high-end PCs with discrete video cards that have built-in, dedicated ...

A Memory Leak is a misplacement of resources in a computer program due to faulty memory allocation. It happens when a RAM location not in use remains unreleased. A memory leak is not to be confused ...

I've seen programs where there's a correlation between running out of memory and dying with a segfault, but I don't get the connection. I know a segmentation fault is when you try to access memory you ...