Linux continues to grow bigger and better. Here's what's new and notable in the 6.16 release, plus what you need to know about 6.17.

Understanding Linux memory management—page tables, swapping, and memory allocation—enables system administrators and developers to optimize performance and troubleshoot issues effectively. With tools ...

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.

Meta Platforms tried to use the NUMA balancing algorithms in the Linux kernel (also sometimes called AutoNUMA) to balance memory pages across regular DDR main memory and CXL main memory, and also ...

If you want to poke around your CPU and memory, for example, there are tons of programs for that under Windows. There are a few for Linux, but they aren’t always as complete or handy.

top - 14:22:38 up 12 min, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.22, 0.32 MiB Mem : 3784.7 total, 967.8 free, 1249.0 used, 1567.9 buff/cache MiB Swap: 3784.0 total, 3737.2 free, 46.8 used. 2170.7 avail ...