Among the information that should be in the SPD is the RAM chip vendor and the “rank” of the memory: that is, does it use one set of chips or two. Of course, Linux can read I2C, so no problem ...

A segmentation fault, or segfault, is a memory error in which a program tries to access a memory address that does not exist or the program does not have the rights ...

Igor Stoppa posted a patch to allow kernel memory pools to be made read-only. Memory pools are a standard way to group memory allocations in Linux so their time cost is more predictable. With Igor's ...

Mike Rapoport from IBM launched a bid to implement address space isolation in the Linux kernel. Address space isolation emanates from the idea of virtual memory—where the system maps all its hardware ...

$ alias mem-by-proc="ps aux | head -1; ps aux | sort -rnk 4" You can also use a ps command to rank an individual user’s processes by memory usage. In this example, we do this by selecting a ...