Memory management is a critical aspect of modern operating systems, ensuring efficient allocation and deallocation of system memory. Linux, as a robust and widely used operating system, employs ...

With memory pages shared among applications, sometimes it’s hard to tell how much you’ll really save by killing that memory hog. Two new memory metrics offer help for busy administrators. Anybody who ...

I have a rather specific question I've been trying to answer regarding a detail of Linux's virtual memory management. I haven't been able to find the information after a fair bit of googling and I was ...

When it comes to system administration, one of the earliest decisions to be made is how to configure swap space. Many readers already are thinking they know what to do: throw in as much RAM as you can ...

Memory management on Linux systems is complicated. Seeing high usage doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a problem. There are other things you should also consider. Running out of memory on a Linux ...

As a programmer, I’m aware that I tend to make mistakes — and why not? Even programmers are human. Some errors are detected during code compilation, while others ...

Imagine this: You're using one Linux distribution and you want to quickly deploy a virtual machine of another Linux distribution for either testing purposes or to have a secondary operating system to ...