Chapter 4: Tuning memory resources

Table of contents

• Chapter 4: Tuning memory resources
  • Physical memory
  • Virtual memory
    • Paging
    • Swapping
    • Viewing physical memory usage
    • Viewing swap space usage
    • Viewing swapping and paging activity
  • Identifying memory-bound systems
  • Tuning memory-bound systems
    • Reducing disk activity caused by swapping and paging
    • Increasing memory by reducing the buffer cache size
    • Investigating memory usage by system tables
  • Using graphical clients on low memory systems
  • Tuning X server performance
  • Kernel parameters that affect the X Window System
  • Case study: memory-bound workstation
  • Case study: memory-bound software development system