Dear smart people, I'm gonna write what I think is correct and you fix my mistakes, fill in the blanks, or confirm what is correct.<BR><BR>This is referring to x86(-64), but should generally apply to ...

Linux has become a dominant OS for application back ends and micro-services in the cloud. Usage limits (aka ulimits) are a critical Linux application performance tuning tool. Docker is now the leading ...

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 ...

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 ...