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 permission ...
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 ...
The Linux kernel Out of Memory (OOM) killer is not usually invoked on desktop and server computers, because those environments contain sufficient resident memory and swap space, making the OOM ...
uClinux has seen a huge increase in popularity and is appearing in more commodity devices than ever before. Its use in routers (Figure 1), Web cameras and even DVD players is testimony to its ...
LinkedIn’s engineering team recently published an article titled “Don’t Let Linux Control Groups Run Uncontrolled”. Control groups (cgroups) are a Linux feature used by projects like Docker and CoreOS ...
Embedded systems such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices and single-board computers possess limited memory and processing ...
For years, there's been a known security vulnerability hiding in the GNU C Library (glibc). This library, which is critical for Linux and many other operating systems and programs, had a dynamic ...
After rolling out to Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux, version 73 of Chrome OS is now available. Notable features include Linux support on Chromebooks managed by enterprise admins, settings changes, ...