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Virtual memory combines RAM and dedicated disk storage areas known as swap space. Virtual memory management software maps copies of files on disk to virtual addresses. Programs use these virtual addresses rather than real addresses to store instructi… more »

Displaying the top 10 CPU-consuming processes # ps aux | head -1; ps aux | sort -rn +2 | head -10 Displaying number of processors in the system # lsdev -Cc processor Displaying the top 10 CPU-consuming processes # ps aux | head -1 ; ps au… more »

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6 and 5.0 introduced /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, which allows the pagecache and slabcache to be cleared on demand. To free the pagecache: # sync; echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches To free… more »