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#Top 10 List of Week 05

1. What is Virtual Memory?
   Gary from Android Authority explains the basics and implementation of Virutal Memory. Apparently it is a way to optimize memory routing, and to make the most of our physical memory!
2. Process Virtual Memory
   A video from the Univerity of Washington’s Dr. Robert Dimpsey, demonstrating how virtual memory performs, from the prespective of a program.
3. Memory Hierarchy Models
   A lecture from the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenCourseWare(OCW), detailing what is a memory hierarchy, the various ways it can be implemented, and it’s tradeoffs.
4. Even more Memory Hierarchy
   Yet another MIT OCW material, this time slightly more modern (2017), and describes the memory hierarchy in more detail, focusing more on the hardware side.
5. Demand Paging
   One of the few videos I can find that explains demand paging pretty well.
6. Page Faults
   A lecture that explains a page fault pretty well, and how do we handle it. Basically the OS performs a CRUD operation on the page table, lol.
7. But then how do you make virtual memory, you know, fast?
   vsauce theme plays A lecture from the same guy as #6 (David Black-Schaffer), telling us how the quack we can make virtual memory fast, as otherwise, we have to go and read the page table. sda go brrr (spoiler: go get a cache, lol)
8. Memory Allocation - slab and buddy system
   A video by corpse husband (jkjk, but Gabriel does sound like corpse tho). It is kind of longform, but it explains memory allocation by the os very, very exhaustively.
9. What is NUMA?
   A video explaining Non Uniform Memory access, basically how a single computer can operate with multiple CPU’s.
10. Should you put 2 CPUs in your PC?
    Obligatory LTT video, telling how and why multi-CPUs in consumer-grade PCs are quack. (also, of course AMD did it first)