Memory management is a critical aspect of modern operating systems, ensuring efficient allocation and deallocation of system memory. Linux, as a robust and widely used operating system, employs ...

The Linux kernel Out of Memory (OOM) killer is not usually invoked on desktop and server computers, because those environments contain sufficient resident memory and swap space, making the OOM ...

Kernel Breach iSEC said the vulnerability was identified in the Linux kernel memory management code inside the mremap system call and was caused by a missing function-return value-check. The security ...

Linus Torvalds released the fourth release candidate (RC4) for Linux Kernel version 6.19. Learn what's new in Kernel 6.19-rc4 ...

Here are the benefits and some caveats to running data-path applications in the user space. Discussed is Linux's UIO framework. Traditionally, packet-processing or data-path applications in Linux have ...