The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins’ book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR; (April 12, 2004), used with ...

The built-in resource manager on Proxmox detects "used" memory rather than what’s "available" to the system. Since Linux VMs leverage disk caches like there’s no tomorrow, you’re bound to notice ...

These days, most Linux installations create a partition during installation, and this is optimal. You can, however, set up a swap file and use it for your swap space.

vmstat shows some stastics about your swap space. Linux, like other modern operating systems, uses virtual memory to use your storage for processes that aren't needed immediately in RAM.

Linux continues to grow bigger and better. Here's what's new and notable in the 6.16 release, plus what you need to know about 6.17.

Meta Platforms tried to use the NUMA balancing algorithms in the Linux kernel (also sometimes called AutoNUMA) to balance memory pages across regular DDR main memory and CXL main memory, and also ...

Optimizing Linux performance is an ongoing process that involves continuous monitoring, tuning, and adaptation to changing workloads. By understanding key performance metrics, managing CPU and memory ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published research looking into 172 key open-source projects and whether they are susceptible to memory flaws.

Developer: Gray Watson Reviewed version: 5.5.2 Linux support: All flavors License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License Dmalloc is a memory-debugging tool developed by Gray Watson.

By default, the Linux Terminal app is limited to 4GB of memory, which might be insufficient for demanding development workloads. Fortunately, there’s a simple workaround for this limitation.

When some process on a Linux system needs more memory, the pager will swap out (i.e., move from memory to swap space) some pages that haven’t been used in a while. These pages can be moved back ...