For the following posts I'd like to explore memory management in the context of high end game consoles.
References
http://systematicgaming.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/memory-management-consoles/
Dynamic Storage Allocation: A Survey and a Critical Review
http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~pdinda/ics-s05/doc/dsa.pdf
Doug Lea, An Allocator
http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html
Reconsidering Custom Memory Allocation
ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/emery/papers/reconsidering-custom.pdf
Memory Management with Explicit Regions
http://www.barnowl.org/research/pubs/98-pldi-regions.pdf
Composing High Performance Memory Allocators
www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/talks/pldi2001.ppt
Monitoring Your PCs Memory Usage for Game Development
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1430/monitoring_your_pcs_memory_usage_.php