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Maybe - it depends on what you mean.<br />
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A memory page (which is 4K) can be in one of three states<br />
1) Free.<br />
2) Reserved for your use.<br />
3) Commited to storage.<br />
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This is controlled via the VirtualAlloc/VirtualFree functions (Search MSDN for details).<br />
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*however*<br />
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If what your really trying to do is allocate non-paged memory then the short answer is &quot;NO, you can't do this&quot;.<br />
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Maybe - it depends on what you mean.

A memory page (which is 4K) can be in one of three states
1) Free.
2) Reserved for your use.
3) Commited to storage.

This is controlled via the VirtualAlloc/VirtualFree functions (Search MSDN for details).


*however*


If what your really trying to do is allocate non-paged memory then the short answer is "NO, you can't do this".



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I'm yet another guy with the same question: why do you want to do this?<br />
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I'm yet another guy with the same question: why do you want to do this?



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Is there any API available in windows which allow you to allocate a fixed block of memory(say 100K) contiguously in RAM and reserve it for me(i.e, No data movement and virtual memory management).
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Is there any API available in windows which allow you to allocate a fixed block of memory(say 100K) contiguously in RAM and reserve it for me(i.e, No data movement and virtual memory management).

Contiguous Memory Allocation

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