Several commands report on how much memory is installed and being used on Linux systems. You can be deluged with details or get a quick and easy answer, depending on the command you use.

To look at shared memory on a Linux system, you can try the ipcs command. This command is available on both Linux and Solaris systems, but your options will vary.

We have been excited about the possibilities of adding tiers of memory to systems, particularly persistent memories that are less expensive than DRAM but offer similar-enough performance and ...

An excerpt from Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals explaining memory management and the Linux/Unix address space.

Silicon Graphics is behind the world's largest shared-memory Linux system, a 512-processor behemoth at NASA's Ames Research Center.

Resources for “Memory Ordering in Modern Microprocessors, Part I” Software by Paul E. McKenney on June 28, 2005 ...