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 ...

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 ...

Forget the bare minimum - here's how much RAM you actually need to get the best performance out of your Linux system.

There are many reasons that enterprises may wish to use Linux desktops within a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) broker. I outlined five of these in a recent article. Now that all major VDI ...