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Tuning the garbage collector is the most important thing that can be done to improve the performance of a Java application. GC is typically caused…
When speaking about memory there are a few concepts that I had to wrap my head around. I’m hence putting them together for future reference.…
Kernel introduction Linux system is composed of three main bodies of code, in line with the most traditional UNIX implementations: Kernel: The kernel is responsible…