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“Acpi-State” in slabtop's output gets increased — what is it? Is it a bug?

Since boot it gets increased occupying even more RAM than anything else: Active / Total Objects (% used) : 680608 / 719176 (94.6%) Active / Total Slabs (% used) : 17390 / 17390 (100.0%) ...
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Invoking memory compaction on linux 2.6.35 kernels and beyond

This LWN article about memory compaction indicates that memory compaction can be invoked in the linux kernel by Writing a node number to /proc/sys/vm/compact_node, causing compaction to happen on ...
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Why is the theoretical RAM limit for RHEL 6 128 TB and how is this determined?

I'm studying for RHCSA and am confused by a statement I came across in some training material: There is no practical maximum RAM, as theoretically, you could run 128 TB of RAM on RHEL 6. But ...
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Where does the Linux kernel reside in memory ?

From some book I have, I have in my notes that the Linux kernel resides at 0xc00000000 on 32-bit systems, and is mapped into user space for performance reasons. Is this accurate ? How can I verify ...
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An oom killer thats baffling me

I am not able to understand why would kernel issue this oom killer when I see enough memory is available: Also why are there so many kernel cache pages allocated? I say enough memory is available ...
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What is the appropriate value of vm.swappiness when using zram?

I'm using zram on my computer as a compressed RAM-backed swap. When the system needs to swap something out, swapping it to a zram-backed swap file is more or less equivalent to compressing that data ...
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Need good ideas about improving any Linux service [closed]

I have a project assigned to me by OS teacher to choose any Linux service and improve it. Currently I am totally blank in this. I am not sure which service should I use which can easily be implemented ...
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Why does Linux show both more and less memory than I physically have installed?

I know about swap - this question isn't about that. In dmesg, the Linux (x86-64) kernel tells me this about how much memory I have: [ 0.000000] Memory: 3890880k/4915200k available (6073k kernel ...