Linux novices often find virtual memory mysterious, but with a grasp of the fundamental concepts, it's easy to understand. With this knowledge, you can monitor your system's memory utilization using ...

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 Linux virtual memory system, in other words, is a black box which provides too little information on what is going on inside. Matt’s project is to open up that box and shine some light ...

Virtual Memory Virtual memory is typically implemented via demand segmentation (fragmentation of processes from within, as discussed in a previous section) and/or demand paging (fragmentation of ...

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 ...

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under ...

Several commands report on how much memory is installed and being used on Linux systems. You can be deluged with details or get a quick and easy answer, depending on the command you use.

On the rare occasion that my Linux desktop freezes, I have a few tricks up my sleeve that keep me from having to do a hard reboot on my machine.