Understanding Linux memory management—page tables, swapping, and memory allocation—enables system administrators and developers to optimize performance and troubleshoot issues effectively. With tools ...

Memory management on Linux systems is complicated because of the measures taken to ensure the best use of system resources. Don’t let the initial appearance of full memory trick you into ...

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 ...

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 ...

Example 15: Linux Memory Management and Segmentation Linux processes are made up of text, data, and BSS static segments; in addition, each process has its own stack (which is created with the fork ...

Linus Torvalds officially announced the stable release of the Linux kernel 6.15 on May 25, 2025. Its arrival was delayed for a few hours, Torvalds said, "because of a last-minute bug report resulting ...

We talked about the Tuxedo Nano Pro in a previous list of Linux-first mini PCs, but it's since been updated to its 14th ...

Android 15’s new Linux Terminal app is limited to 4GB of memory, which can be insufficient for developers. A workaround involves increasing the zram size, creating a swap file, and adjusting ...

AMD's Instinct cards break the nap button with their massive memoryAMD engineer Samuel Zhang has flagged a Linux bug that ...

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.