Tag: swap

  • How memory usage adds up in Linux

    There are too many metrics that describes some aspects about memory in Linux. Further to an old article on this site, where several concepts were…

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  • How is memory managed in Linux

    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.…

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  • CentOS – Remove Swap safely

    If the default installation has swap on, you will see it from block device list: Many installations require swap to be off for performance reasons…

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