Open Source Summit + ELC Europe 2018

An Introduction to Linux memory management. The basics of paging. Understanding basic hardware memory management and the difference between virtual, physical and swap memory. How do determine hardware installed and how to figure out how processes use that memory. How a process uses physical and virtual memory effectively. How to control overcommit and virtual and/or physical memory limits.

Basic knobs in Linux to control memory management. System calls for a process to control its memory usage.