In this tutorial, we will learn how to troubleshoot high load average on Linux server using the vmstat, iostat, and pidstat ...

I was surprised by which Linux commands I stopped using.

In my recent exploration of Microsoft’s Azure Linux 3, I was impressed by its efficient RAM usage — just 115MB upon booting. This sparked my curiosity about the RAM consumption of various Linux ...

Partly due to the ongoing DRAM crisis and partly due to Microsoft’s continuing "enshittification" of Windows, many users are jumping to Linux-based operating systems. This migration has also been ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

Before diving into the tools themselves, it's crucial to understand the key metrics that indicate the health of a Linux system. These include CPU utilization, memory usage, disk activity, and network ...

An aging 2012 laptop shed its bloat and booted in minutes with a stripped Fluxbox setup that sips under 500MB of RAM.

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 ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...