The kernel could read and write directly to and from the disk for all the file system accesses, but system response time and throughput will be poor because of the slow disk transfer rate. The kernel ...

Clearing the buffer, cache, and swap memory in Linux can be done easily with a few simple commands. If you’ve ever used the free -m command, you’re probably familiar with the output, which provides ...

Abstract: Journaling techniques play an important role in addressing the reliability issue of filesystems caused by the volatile dynamic random access memory (DRAM)-based buffer cache. However, ...

Abstract: Flash memory is widely used in mobile phones to store contact information, applications files and other types of data. In an operating system, the buffer cache keeps the I/O blocks in DRAM ...

We often see the “HD Buffer” or “HD Cache” Size written on the hard disks along with their other specifications. Many users are oblivious to this sector of the specification and often overlook it ...

</p> The Linux operating system effectively manages memory and outperforms other leading operating systems. One of its benefits is the ability to... Clearing the cache in Linux can occasionally be ...

If the word is not in cache buffer, create a new node, make it head node and make it's counter 1. If the word is in cache buffer, it's counter will be increased by 1, if the counter of that node is ...

Locking a buffer in the cache requires a process to acquire an exclusive lock on that buffer. A buffer lock can only be released by the same process that locked it or by the kernel. Before an ...