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John Hennessy and David Patterson: they are titled Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface and Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (both published by Morgan Kaufmann).
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“If a process tries to write to a shared page, it incurs a copy-on-write fault.[5”
Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci, System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators

“kswapd’s behavior is controlled by three parameters, called tries_base, tries_min, and swap_cluster,”
Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci, System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators

“system that is paging is writing selected, infrequently used pages of memory to disk,”
Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci, System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators

“Memory is consumed by four things: the kernel, filesystem caches, processes, and intimately shared memory.”
Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci, 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.”
Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci, System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators

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