Understanding Linux memory management—page tables, swapping, and memory allocation—enables system administrators and developers to optimize performance and troubleshoot issues effectively. With tools ...

Library functions that deal with dynamic memory are not limited to malloc() and free(), although these are by far the most-used calls. Other available functions include realloc(), to resize an already ...

Although the Linux Terminal app runs on all Pixel phones with the latest Android 15 stable or Android 16 beta releases, it has a fixed memory allocation regardless of the device’s total RAM ...

Memory management on Linux systems is complicated. Seeing high usage doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a problem. There are other things you should also consider.

Other Linux memory allocation functions were also designed for capacity, not for performance. When Linux allocates memory on a per-segment basis, it is not physically contiguous.

When you're working in Linux, manually debugging memory-related errors can be difficult and time consuming. These five tools can help.

A comparison of the latency and coherency of IBM’s Power10 memory inception versus CXL memory framed in the context of large-socket NUMA architectures and the newly developed Linux TPP memory layer ...

SLUBStick makes use of the heap vulnerabilities, which refer to the flaws affecting the “heap” region of a process’ memory that is responsible for dynamic memory allocation, in Linux kernels ...

For years, there's been a security problem with how the GNU C Library dealt with single-linked-lists. Now, Check Point has released a patch, which will fix the problem once and for all.

Other Linux memory allocation functions also were designed for capacity, not for performance. When Linux allocates memory on a per-segment basis, it is not physically contiguous.