How to disable all swaps on Linux to force the application/kernel use the physical memory?
To diable all swaps on Linux, run this command as root:
# swapoff -a
-a means all swaps.
Similarly, to enable all swaps on Linux:
# swapon -a
How to detect whether a file is being written by any other process in Linux? Before a program open a file to processes it, it wants to ensure no other processes are writing to it. Here, we are sure after the files are written and closed, they will not be written any more. Hence, one-time…
Is large-but-correctly-aligned-and-optimized code faster than less-bytes-per-instruction/opcode-packed code? Alex Ionescu mentioned in ros-dev mailing list: I’m not sure why you would want kernel code to be “smaller” instead of “faster” though — on modern processors for cases like interrupts and such, large-but-correctly-aligned-and-optimized code is faster than less-bytes-per-instruction/opcode-packed code. ie: mov eax, [foo] add eax, 1 mov…
The mrcc project’s homepage is here: mrcc project. Abstract mrcc is an open source compilation system that uses MapReduce to distribute C code compilation across the servers of the cloud computing platform. mrcc is built to use Hadoop by default, but it is easy to port it to other could computing platforms, such as MRlite,…
How to view a file at a specific commit/revision in git? You can use git show to view a file’s content at a specific commit in git: https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-git-show/ $ git show REVISION:/path/to/file You can also save a copy by $ git show REVISION:/path/to/file >file.copy Read more: How to produce a patch file for a specific…
This post collect the reference resource for x86-64 (also know as Intel 64, AMD 64) ISA / assembly language programming. x86-64 is a 64-bit extension of the Intel x86 instruction set. ==x86-64 Assembly Programming== Introduction to Computer Systems Resources (15-213 Introduction to Computer Systems Resources from CMU) Lots materials for learning machine-level programming on the…
How to get the full request URL of the page being processed in PHP? If you are sure the request is a http or https one, and the PHP script is executed according to (e.g. by a load balancer or apache reverse proxy) the REQUEST_URI/HTTP_HOST which are set by the client, the PHP script can…