Windows Memory Mapped Files

Question

I am trying to investigate the behaviour of the Windows Kernel with respect to Memory Mapped Files / Virtual Memory. Specifically I am interested in determining how frequently t

Answer 1

I would suggest that you obtain a copy of

Microsoft® Windows® Internals Fourth Edition: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Windows XP and Windows 2000

There are pdfs floating around in the cyber cloud.

This is the book done by the "sysinternals" crowd who have written some very good windows utils over the years.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals

You will have to read the chapters on

Memory Management

Storage Management

Cache Manager

File Systems

They don't directly address your concern but if you manage to read, digest and grasp the very techical paragraphs you can work it out yourself. However if you can predict why Windows does what it does "You are a better man than most".

Happy brain freeze reading that lot.