Archive for the 'memory' Category

How to replace or upgrade memory in Dell Latitude D830, D820 notebook >> Inside my laptop

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011

used this guide to upgrade memory on Inna’s laptop

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How to replace or upgrade memory in Dell Latitude D830, D820 notebook >> Inside my laptop

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011

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Help! Linux ate my RAM!

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

this is funny (web page that shows to folks that are new to linux where [i.e. disk cache] the ram goes )

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ArchitectNotes – Varnish [what's wrong with caching things in memory]

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

excellent notes about app design, and what can happen if an app tries to implement its own memory management

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[OOM Killer Saga] Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don’t kill my xlock [LWN.net]

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

whenever your are in discussion about OOM, make sure you mention this :-)

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Memory Translation and Segmentation : Gustavo Duarte

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

very goom sum-up about memory mechanism in modern x86 machines. For more elabored and detailed info

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