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Linux-mm.org is a wiki for documenting how memory management works and for coordinating new memory management development projects. Please help editing this wiki. Thank you.

Documentation

  • ["LinuxMMDocumentation"] contains information on how to tweak the Linux kernel memory management subsystem.
  • ["LinuxMMInternals"] explains how some of the Linux kernel memory management works.

Community

To subscribe to the linux-mm mailing list, email majordomo@kvack.org and tell it you want to "subscribe linux-mm".

If you like IRC, you can join us on irc.oftc.net in #mm.

You can also discuss things on the [http://forum.kernelnewbies.org/list.php?13 Kernelnewbies Memory Management web forum]...

Projects

Some of the more active current Linux memory management projects are:

  • [http://code.google.com/p/compcache/ CompressedCaching] - Reduce I/O by keeping more data in memory.
  • AdvancedPageReplacement The time needed to swap a single program into memory is ever increasing, so page replacement is becoming more and more important.
  • NetworkStorageDeadlock - storage over network has a deadlock problem, where it can take memory to free memory.
  • PageTrace - a kernel patch and tool to analyze memory access patterns.
  • HugePages - Improving the availability and usability of huge pages
  • [http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxsuperpages Superpages] - Port of Rice University's Superpages to Linux (2.6 kernel).

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  • 2006-04-09, thanks to [http://people.redhat.com/duffy/ Maureen Duffy], Linux-MM now has a cute logo. Thank you, Maureen.
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