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kernel space

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The memory used by the operating system, which is protected and cannot be accessed by regular applications. Virtual memory can be used to page some of the kernel in memory to disk. However, there is always a certain part of the kernel that must reside in physical memory at all times and cannot be swapped out. See kernel, user space and virtual memory.



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eInfochips' test infrastructure supports testing of various protocols and drivers in both user and kernel space utilizing different DUT configurations.
ShaoLin Microsystems (booth R2) will introduce CogoFS, a Linux-based stackable compression file system with ShaoLin's Kypectec compression engine that works in the kernel space, which delivers high performance, easy migration and reliability, saving server disk space and speeding network traffic by storing files in compressed form at the server.
Trillium's protocol stack can run in the User and/or Kernel space of Windows NT.
 
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