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

VM balancing: in Linux 2.4, the balancing between the eviction of cache pages, swap-backed anonymous memory and the inode and dentry caches is essentially the same as in Linux 2.2. While this seems to ...

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 ...

Memory management is one of the most fundamental parts of an operating system, and Linux Kernel 6.10 provides sophisticated mechanisms to handle it efficiently. This post will outline key concepts in ...

The anonymous memory can be estimated from system metrics like the Resident Set Size (RSS). A new version of cgroups has been released with improvements, but is yet to be tested for these cases ...

Virtual Memory and Paging. Paging is a memory management scheme that eliminates the need for contiguous allocation of physical memory. The operating system will have an address translation hardware ...

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 ...

Process mapped virtual memory: this memory is administrated in the process page tables. Processes can have page cache or SYSV shared memory segments mapped, in which case those pages are managed in ...