Transparent Huge Pages (THP) is a feature available in mostly Linux distributions or distro which optimizes large memory of the systems as now days systems (computer systems) are coming with large memory. THP can enhance system performance by mapping memory with large physical pages this can be useful in case system is computing multiple processes,…
Linux kernel is a core of Linux Operating system (OS) it work as interface between hardware and processes for OS. Linux kernel was first developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991 since now many kernel have been released. This year Linus Torvalds has announced in his mailing list(LKML) about the released of new stable Linux kernel…
Introduction to Inode File descriptors, file table and inode table in Linux. Image Source: Wikipedia An inode is a data structure on a filesystem on Linux and other Unix-likeoperating systems that stores all the information about a file except its name and its actual data. Inode is created during creation of file along with file…
Corruption of initramfs can be occur by many ways for example after patching CentOS 7 Linux OS or installing a buggy device driver in server you found CentOS 7 Linux server has become unbootable. You may also encouter below kernel panic error because server initramfs got damaged . CentOS 7 Linux Kernel Panic screen Now…
Linux is known for one of most secure Unix Operating System (OS) in world. But that is not mean it is 100% secure there is say in Information Technology (IT) no technology is a completely secure that is why from a System Administrator to CIO they take measure for securing IT infrastructure on regular basis…
Microsoft has added Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) from Microsoft Windows 10 version 1607 onward and Windows Server 2019 it has replaced the older Windows Services for Unix it is like WINE in Linux which provide compatible layer for running Windows based application on Linux likewise WSL provide a subsystem or layer on which different Linux distro…
Red Hat has launched the beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8) for users and developers for testing purpose and getting feedback from them. Red Hat Inc. which is developing RHEL 8 has announced this operating system beta version for public use on November 14, 2018. Four year ago when Red Hat…
You were running a program installed in your Linux/Unix system and suddenly that program get stop and it log error in its logs memory segmentation fault error or you might executing a command in Linux / Unix server say you are working on LVM extension or VG scanning but you are unable to do so…
Whenever you apply an install/update/remove any package or packages Ubuntu log the changes happened to packages in its default file /var/log/dpkg.log. If you do listing to /var/log/ path (below is the command) you may find numbers of uncompressed and compressed dpkg.log files it depends on what type of log rotate policy is configure in file…
Pacemaker is an open source cluster manager software which provide high availability of resources or services in CentOS 7 or RHEL 7 Linux. It has feature of scalable and advanced HA Cluster Manager. This HA cluster manager distributed by ClusterLabs. Corosync is the core of Pacemaker Cluster Manager as it is responsible for generating heartbeat…
