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 ...

There are several commands for checking up on memory usage in a Linux system. Focusing on which processes and users are consuming the most memory can benefit from a few carefully crafted tools and ...

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 ...

We have some Websphere Linux application servers. We are trying to monitor process memory usage, to accomplish this in AIX we have always used svmon; I cannot seem to find Linux replacement is anyone ...

In the vast majority of cases, running a Linux-based operating system involves a pretty powerful processor with a lot of memory on hand, and perhaps most importantly, a memory management unit, or MMU.