As former U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt is credited with saying, ‘Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.’
“while a system that is swapping is writing entire processes from memory to disk.”
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
“kswapd’s behavior is controlled by three parameters, called tries_base, tries_min, and swap_cluster,”
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
“bias is a compelling figure, while noise is the background to which we pay no attention. That is how we remain largely unaware of a large flaw in our judgment.”
― Noise
― Noise
“second, the memory cycle time, describes how frequently you can repeat a memory reference.”
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
“Henry Faulds, a Scottish physician, published the first scientific paper suggesting the use of fingerprints as an identification technique.”
― Noise
― Noise
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