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Are there any benefits in setting a HDD's logical sector size to 4Kn?
Following @Tomes advice, I'm trying to answer my own question, based on my comment exchange with @user10489.
Of course I am no expert on this matter, so don't hesitate to amend or correct my ...
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Difference between cores and logical processors
This distinction between cores and threads exists because of the design of some CPUs.
Intel introduced a technology called Hyper-Threading in some of their CPUs. This takes advantage of some of the ...
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Why does Linux needs both pid_max and threads-max?
These settings don’t have the same effect:
threads-max limits the number of processes which can be instantiated simultaneously
pid_max limits the identifier assigned to processes
threads-max limits ...
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why ulimit restriction is affect by other processes?
If you check the main config file for limits (limits.conf) you will see the first column is domain. And in this column you can have: * (wildcard for everyone), username (for user limits) and groupname ...
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How can I locate the stacks of child tasks (threads) using /proc/<pid>/maps?
The 28th field works for me, on Linux 6.1.0. Note that tasks will not have their own stack, unless they need it.
Here is a simple script to run, it should return different bottom stack values for some ...
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Does the definition of a thread in Linux depend on a system call?
2.4 was the Linux version that introduced "threads" as we know them (discussed here). And CLONE_THREAD is the flag to ask clone() for a thread instead of a process.
Prior to 2.4 Linux only ...
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