Swap memory, also known as swap space, is a feature in computer systems that acts as an extension of physical RAM (Random Access Memory). It comes into play when RAM becomes full and the system needs additional space to store and manage running processes. Here’s a breakdown of how swap memory works: RAM Priority: Physical
We have seen about page faults in few of the previous articles. In this article we will be looking at two different kind of page faults that can happen. So lets have a look at major and minor page faults. TLDR – Minor page faults occurs when the page is present in the memory but
When you work with Linux and memory you must have heard the term swap memory. In this article, we are going to see how swap memory affects the latencies of your system, and should you keep them or not? What is a swap memory? It is a memory space that is made available separately to
In recent times, I was working with Redis clusters which have very high throughput. While doing this we came across a problem which was Redis bgsave was taking a lot of memory sometimes almost as the same memory as the data present in the memory. In this small writeup, we will see why this happened.
Recently while working with one of the databases I came across a method that is widely used by many databases to take a snapshot of the memory into a disk. One of the most famous that you have heard of is Redis. The method is called copy on write. Let’s see what is a copy