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

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

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011

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 )

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

[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 :-)

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