The philosophy behind "Stroll": continuous learning, curiosity‑driven, and practice‑focused.
This article explains how the CPU executes instructions, the roles of processes and threads, the structure of a process control block, and the different types of context switches in Linux, highlighting why these mechanisms impact overall system performance.
This article walks through a comprehensive set of Linux disk I/O optimizations—including hardware health checks, SSD adoption, RAID configuration, block‑device scheduler tuning, sector size alignment, filesystem selection, swap and huge‑page settings, kernel cache tweaks, third‑party caches, and application‑level strategies—to dramatically improve storage throughput and latency.
This guide walks through using strace together with lsof, vmstat, iostat, and pidstat in a four‑step workflow to pinpoint Linux filesystem bottlenecks, covering VFS core calls, system load checks, disk utilization, per‑process I/O analysis, and detailed file‑operation tracing.
This article explains the Linux storage I/O stack, breaks down disk latency into transmission, queue, and processing time, shows how to measure each part with tools like iostat and disktool, and provides a step‑by‑step checklist for diagnosing high disk latency.
This guide explains Linux disk performance indicators—utilization, saturation, IOPS, throughput, and latency—their interrelationships, and how to monitor both overall and per‑process I/O using tools like iotop, pidstat, and the /proc filesystem.
This article explains Linux disk hardware basics, the block device workflow, I/O scheduler options, how to view and change the scheduler, and key performance metrics such as utilization, saturation, IOPS, throughput, and response time using tools like iostat.
After noticing 14 GB free RAM but a fully used 29 GB swap, the article explains how to diagnose hidden swap consumption using tools like smem and swap_stat_show, clarifies the difference between free’s Swap used and /proc/*/status VmSwap, and shows how adjusting transparent_hugepage defrag and toggling swap can reclaim the space.
The article walks through a real‑world Linux alert showing a 243% CPU IO Wait, explains how to interpret the metric, gathers system basics, uses iostat, iotop, pidstat and mpstat to probe the IO subsystem, checks disk health, and ultimately discovers the root cause was a mis‑configured Prometheus alert rule.
This guide walks through setting up a Ubuntu VM, installing Docker, pulling the AnythingLLM image, configuring storage, launching the container, and using it to ingest and query local documents with a DeepSeek‑R1 model.
This article explains Linux filesystem structures, the virtual filesystem layer, various disk I/O mechanisms—including buffered, non‑buffered, blocking, non‑blocking, synchronous and asynchronous I/O—and provides practical commands for observing inode and dentry caches to aid performance optimization.
