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

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 ...

From servers to desktop computers, "free" RAM is not the same as "available" RAM in a Linux context, and your "free" RAM isn't actually all too important. I'll explain the difference, what's actually ...

Admins are advised to patch their operating system installations against a decade-long memory management flaw that can be exploited to escalate user privileges to root superuser, potentially ...

In the vast majority of cases, running a Linux-based operating system involves a pretty powerful processor with a lot of memory on hand, and perhaps most importantly, a memory management unit, or M… ...

Noob alert. Windows guy here...<BR><BR>Am I overly spoilt by the proliferation of Windows disk cloning tools? I'm having trouble finding the same type of tool for Linux.<BR><BR>Scenario: Asterisk ...

New flash memory-based storage arrays from Violin Memory will come embedded with such data management tools as snapshots, cloning, dedupe and thin provisioning thanks to a strategic agreement with ...

This week, ZDNet's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols asked Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman about the possibility of new Linux kernel code being written in Rust—a high performance but memory-safe ...

Microsoft's latest release of the Windows 10 20H1 preview gives insiders on the Fast Ring new kaomoji, Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 memory management improvements, and Microsoft is rolling out ...