Let’s look at some basic commands that report on memory usage. The first that probably comes to mind is free. The free command will tell you about used and unused memory and about swap space. Physical ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

Resolving buffer busy wait events in an Oracle database can be vital to your optimization efforts. Insight into the causes of this performance problem is provided in this examination by Oracle guru ...