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Finding which process was killed by Linux OOM killer [closed]

Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers. We don’t allow questions about general computing hardware ...

May 28, 2022
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Why is Linux called a monolithic kernel?

I read that Linux is a monolithic kernel. Does monolithic kernel mean compiling and linking the complete kernel code into an executable? If ...

May 24, 2022
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Increasing the maximum number of TCP/IP connections in Linux

I am programming a server and it seems like my number of connections is being limited since my bandwidth isn’t being saturated even ...

May 24, 2022
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How is the Linux kernel tested ?

How do the Linux kernel developers test their code locally and after they have it committed? Do they use some kind of unit ...

May 19, 2022
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What is the theoretical maximum number of open TCP connections that a modern Linux box can have

Assuming infinite performance from hardware, can a Linux box support >65536 open TCP connections? I understand that the number of ephemeral ports (<65536) ...

May 19, 2022
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Is bool a native C type?

I’ve noticed that the Linux kernel code uses bool, but I thought that bool was a C++ type. Is bool a standard C ...

May 18, 2022
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How do the likely/unlikely macros in the Linux kernel work and what is their benefit?

I’ve been digging through some parts of the Linux kernel, and found calls like this: if (unlikely(fd < 0)) { /* Do something ...

May 7, 2022
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What is “:-!!” in C code?

I bumped into this strange macro code in /usr/include/linux/kernel.h: /* Force a compilation error if condition is true, but also produce a result ...

April 11, 2022
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