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 ...

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 system call). Heap space for Linux tasks are allocated ...

Since the earliest days of microprocessors, system designers have been plagued by a problem in which the speed of the CPU's operation exceeded the bandwidth of the memory subsystem to which it was ...

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 ...

The latest version of the Linux kernel has been released – bringing with it support for SSD caching and a performance boost for some server workloads. The 3.9 release, made available by Linus Torvalds ...

Linux frontman Linus Torvalds thinks he's "more self-aware" these days and is "trying to be less forceful" after his brief absence from directing Linux kernel developers because of his abusive ...