理解buffer pool in computer

• Memory pool

  Memory pools (also called fixed-size blocks allocation) is the use of pools for memory management that allows dynamic memory allocation comparable to malloc or C++'s operator new.

  Many real-time operating systems use memory pools.

• Pool

  A pool is a collection of resources that are kept ready to use, rather than acquired on use and released afterwards.

• Data buffer

  Data buffer (or just buffer) is a region of a physical memory storage used to temporarily store data while it is being moved from one place to another.

  Buffers can be implemented in a fixed memory location in hardware

• Buffer pool

  A buffer pool is an area of main memory that has been allocated by the database manager for the purpose of caching table and index data as it is read from disk.

• References

1. IBM Db2