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Interesting information. But this FAQ collection should have a date. Is it always relevant?
by kensai 10y ago
Interesting information. But this FAQ collection should have a date. Is it always relevant?
- thomaslee 10y ago+1 on the date, but generally relevant to most modern x86/x86-64 hardware IMO. (The rest of this comment is largely my own inflated opinion.) From a developer's perspective, whether it's _useful_ when operating at a certain level of abstraction is another question. Really do think it's good to know this stuff, but if you're writing, say, Ruby or Python web apps you probably don't _need_ to know it. Low latency/high throughput/systems-level stuff it starts to become more relevant. That said, there's certainly been operational scenarios where knowing some of this stuff can help narrow down misconfigured systems and/or squeeze more life out of existing hardware (e.g. configuring a JVM to use huge pages).
- schmichael 10y ago~$ curl -v http://nommu.org/memory-faq.txt > /dev/null > GET /memory-faq.txt HTTP/1.1 > Host: nommu.org > < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Server: GitHub.com < Last-Modified: Thu, 05 May 2016 01:37:27 GMT Hm, github you say? https://github.com/nommu/nommu.org https://github.com/nommu/nommu.org Jun 8, 2015 is the last commit to this particular file.