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Defragging RAM / OOM failure

This question is fairly lengthy, so I'll ask the questions at the top and then go through my method of coming to the questions: Did (Busybox based) rm not execute because there wasn't enough ...
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How can I observe memory bandwidth?

I have an embedded Linux ARM system that is showing significantly less throughput than expected on both Ethernet and USB. I suspect the memory may be contributing. Is there a way to observe the memory ...
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Increasing kernel memory size

I have an embedded board with 512MB of RAM running Linux 2.6.29 and UBoot bootloader. But the kernel is able to utilize only 128MB of RAM. I tried changing the value of XCODE_MEMSIZE, which I think ...
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Shell command to read device registers?

On a single-board computer running Linux, is there a way to read the contents of the device configuration registers that control hardware? I think it would be a wrapper for inw(), more or less. I'm ...