The ocean doesn’t care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny.
“system that is paging is writing selected, infrequently used pages of memory to disk,”
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
“while a system that is swapping is writing entire processes from memory to disk.”
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
“Paging is not necessarily indicative of a problem; it is the action of the page scanner to try and increase the size of the free list by moving inactive pages to disk.”
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
“bias is a compelling figure, while noise is the background to which we pay no attention. That is how we remain largely unaware of a large flaw in our judgment.”
― Noise
― Noise
“Memory is consumed by four things: the kernel, filesystem caches, processes, and intimately shared memory.”
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
Bhaskar’s 2024 Year in Books
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