All that aside, memory on a Linux system can fill up and performance can slow down. Just don’t take one report on memory usage as an indication that your system’s in trouble.

So, while at first glance, this system appears to be running short of memory, it’s actually just making good use of memory that’s currently not needed for anything else. The key number to look ...

When I want to monitor my Linux system's performance, I turn to these handy apps to collect more data than I'll probably ever ...

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

On Linux systems, programs expand the size of the memory arena in precalculated increments, usually one memory page in size or aligned with a boundary. Once the heap requires more than what is ...

There are a few for Linux, but they aren’t always as complete or handy. Recently, I had half the memory in my main desktop fail and I wanted to poke around in the system.

The reclamation rate is 44X faster with the TPP protocol than the default mechanisms in the Linux kernel, and instead of degrading performance by adding CXL memory (which happened) the system offers ...

On a good day, CMA works well, but when the system is under memory pressure (which AArch64 Linux on 4GB of RAM is, sort of constantly), the fact that the system can use CMA memory regions and ...