A Smackerel of Opinion

Last year I wrote about kernel commits that are tagged with the "Fixes" tag. Kernel developers use the "Fixes" tag on ...

The Linux kernel I/O schedulers attempt to balance the need to get the best possible I/O performance while also trying to ensure the I/O re...

Forkstat is a simple utility I wrote a while ago that can trace process activity using the rather useful Linux NETLINK_CONNECTOR API.   Re...

Bpftrace is a new high-level tracing language for Linux using the extended Berkeley packet filter (eBPF).  It is a very powerful and flexib...