There is much more to write about all the work we do at Facebook with memory management efficiency on our systems, but there was this one detour investigation in the middle of 2012 that I had to revisit recently courtesy of Wikipedia. There are lots of factors that make machines page out memory segments into disk, thus slowing everything down and locking software up – from file system cache pressu
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