If your production Linux system is logging memory allocation failures, it might still be able to keep running. But developers want to keep an eye on which code can survive a shortage of memory. In ...

Google's Chrome team is looking at heap scanning to reduce memory-related security flaws in Chrome's C++ codebase, but the technique creates a toll on memory – except when newer Arm hardware is used.

The lightweight allocator demonstrates 53% faster execution times and requires 23% lower memory usage, while needing only 530 lines of code. Embedded systems such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices ...

A new technical paper titled “Preventing Rowhammer Exploits via Low-Cost Domain-Aware Memory Allocation” was published by researchers at Georgia Tech. “Rowhammer is a hardware security vulnerability ...

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 ...