Process Query

NTDEV
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Folks,

I have a query regarding the regions allocated for a process address space.

I am reading “programming applications” by Jeffrey Richter.

According to the book - when a process is created:

  • An address space is assigned to the process.
  • This address space is the virtual memory and no memory is allocated.
  • memory is allocated by allocating regions and commiting it to
    the physical memory.

My question is where is the memory allocated for regions ???. Is it
from the pagefile ???

Please let me know.

Thanks,
Vinay

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isnt the physical memory allocated for regions?

----- Original Message -----
From: “Vinay Kalkoti”
To: “Windows System Software Devs Interest List”
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 11:30 PM
Subject: [ntdev] Process Query

Folks,

I have a query regarding the regions allocated for a process address space.

I am reading “programming applications” by Jeffrey Richter.

According to the book - when a process is created:
- An address space is assigned to the process.
- This address space is the virtual memory and no memory is allocated.
- memory is allocated by allocating regions and commiting it to
the physical memory.

My question is where is the memory allocated for regions ???. Is it
from the pagefile ???

Please let me know.

Thanks,
Vinay

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