Lesson 4 of 12 · Linux performance
Memory: page cache, swap, memory pressure and the OOM killer
Objective
Know whether a server is really short of memory, understand what the kernel does when memory runs out, read an OOM killer message without panicking, and decide which process should be sacrificed first.
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