Resource management in Operating System

Resource management in Operating System
An operating system uses a variety of resource management programs to manage the hardware and networking resources of a computer system including its CPU, memory, secondary storage devices, telecommunications processors and input/output peripherals.

For example, memory management programs keep track of where data and programs are stored. They may also subdivide memory into a number of sections and swap part of programs and data between memory and magnetic disks or other secondary storage devices.

This can provide a computer system with a virtual memory capability that is significantly larger than the real memory capacity of its primary storage circuits. So, a computer with a virtual memory capability can process large programs and greater amounts of data than the capacity of its memory chips would normally allow.
Resource management in Operating System