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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. | |
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| I never had time to keep the old Linux-MM website updated, so I have converted it all to a wiki. That includes links to current projects, workarounds for common memory management related problems and links to memory management information. | == 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. |
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| If you want to edit anything on this site, go ahead. Just create yourself an account (using the UserPreferences page) and you can start editing pages. If you are new to wikis, please practice in the WikiSandBox before editing pages with content. This site depends on contributions by you - yes, you! ;) | == Community == To subscribe to the linux-mm mailing list, email majordomo@kvack.org and tell it you want to "subscribe linux-mm". |
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| The topics on this site are often discussed on the linux-mm mailing list (email majordomo@kvack.org to get subscribed), and on the #mm IRC channel on irc.oftc.net. | If you like IRC, you can join us on irc.oftc.net in #mm. |
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| RikvanRiel | You can also discuss things on the [http://forum.kernelnewbies.org/list.php?13 Kernelnewbies Memory Management web forum]... |
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| == Linux-MM contents == * ["LinuxMMDocumentation"] * ["LinuxMMInternals"] * MemoryManagementLinks * LinuxKernelMailingLists |
== Projects == Some of the more active current Linux memory management projects are: |
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| == Linux-MM projects == | * [http://code.google.com/p/compcache/ CompressedCaching] - Reduce I/O by keeping more data in memory. * AdvancedPageReplacement The time needed to [http://zolpo.com/ compare insurance quotes] 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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| * AdvancedPageReplacement - brainstorming on how to implement advanced page replacement algorithms in Linux. * SwapTokenTuning - the current implementation of the swap token logic is essentially a proof of concept; there is a lot of room for improvement. * [http://linuxcompressed.sourceforge.net/ Compressed Caching] reducing the amount of disk IO that Linux has to do, by compressing currently inactive pages in the page cache. This project has kernel patches available and interesting performance numbers... * PageTrace - a kernel patch and tool to analyze memory access patterns. * ["MMResearch"] - links to MM related research topics == Links == * [http://lkml.org/ Linux-kernel] mailing list * [http://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&product=Memory+Management&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED Linux MM bugs] in the kernel.org bugzilla * KernelNewbies:KernelNewbies a community dedicated to studying the Linux kernel, also see the [http://kernelnewbies.org/ Kernelnewbies web site] * [http://linux-net.osdl.org/ LinuxNet], a wiki on the Linux network subsystem == News == * See MemoryManagementNews * 2005-04-22, over the last few days, I wrote down everything I knew about AdvancedPageReplacement - I'll use this wiki to keep notes while implementing code (RikvanRiel) * 2004-12-19, created this wiki, started moving some content across from the old site. Boy, is it empty without the outdated content... (RikvanRiel) |
== Site News == * 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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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 [http://zolpo.com/ compare insurance quotes] 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).
Site News
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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