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  2. Kernel panic - Wikipedia

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    A kernel panic message from a Linux system An OpenSolaris ... dump an image of kernel memory to disk for post ... the operating system is capable of continued ...

  3. Memory corruption - Wikipedia

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    Accessing such memory usually causes operating system exceptions, that most commonly lead to a program crash (unless suitable memory protection software is being used). Using memory beyond the memory that was allocated ( buffer overflow ): If an array is used in a loop, with incorrect terminating condition, memory beyond the array bounds may be ...

  4. Resource contention - Wikipedia

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    Resolving resource contention problems is one of the basic functions of operating systems. Various low-level mechanisms can be used to aid this, including locks, semaphores, mutexes and queues. The other techniques that can be applied by the operating systems include intelligent scheduling, application mapping decisions, and page coloring. [1] [2]

  5. Page fault - Wikipedia

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    The operating system delays loading parts of the program from disk until the program attempts to use it and the page fault is generated. If the page is not loaded in memory at the time of the fault, then it is called a major or hard page fault. The page fault handler in the OS needs to find a free location: either a free page in memory, or a ...

  6. Machine-check exception - Wikipedia

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    rasdaemon [8] is a RAS (reliability, availability and serviceability) logging tool for Linux. It records memory errors, using the EDAC tracing events. EDAC is a Linux kernel subsystem that handles detection of ECC errors from memory controllers for most chipsets on i386 and x86_64 architectures. EDAC drivers for other architectures like arm ...

  7. Memory leak - Wikipedia

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    Every physical system has a finite amount of memory, and if the memory leak is not contained (for example, by restarting the leaking program) it will eventually cause problems. Most modern consumer desktop operating systems have both main memory which is physically housed in RAM microchips, and secondary storage such as a hard drive .

  8. Memory paging - Wikipedia

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    The method the operating system uses to select the page frame to reuse, which is its page replacement algorithm, is important to efficiency. The operating system predicts the page frame least likely to be needed soon, often through the least recently used (LRU) algorithm or an algorithm based on the program's working set. To further increase ...

  9. Crash (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a crash, or system crash, occurs when a computer program such as a software application or an operating system stops functioning properly and exits. On some operating systems or individual applications, a crash reporting service will report the crash and any details relating to it (or give the user the option to do so), usually to ...