Anticipating Your Memory Needs

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In this blog posting, Oracle Linux kernel engineer Khalid Aziz talks about the work that he has done in the area of proactive and adaptive free memory management.IntroductionThe Linux kernel organizes physical memory in units of pages of a certain size called base pages. For example, the default base page size when running on Intel processors is 4KB. These pages are allocated to user…

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