MM101: Introduction to Linux Memory Management – Christopher Lameter, Jump Trading LLC

MM101: Introduction to Linux Memory Management – Christopher Lameter, Jump Trading LLC

This is an introduction to Linux memory management. It covers the basics of paging and memory allocation. Understanding basic hardware memory management and the difference between virtual, physical and swap memory. How do determine what memory is installed and determine how processes use that memory. How a process uses physical and virtual memory effectively. How to control over commit and virtual and/or physical memory limits.We also cover some of the basic memory management knobs in Linux as well as some system calls for a process to control its memory usage and memory handling.[Note that this is an updated version of the talk I previously gave due to more requests for these types of introductory presentations]

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linux foundation