The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding,
“Henry Faulds, a Scottish physician, published the first scientific paper suggesting the use of fingerprints as an identification technique.”
― Noise
― Noise
“If a process tries to write to a shared page, it incurs a copy-on-write fault.[5”
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
“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
“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
“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
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