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Sep 29, 2026 · Backend Development

Linux CPU & Memory Tuning: Prevent Freezes, Direct Reclaim Storms & CFS Throttling

This article details Linux kernel memory and CPU tuning techniques for high-concurrency systems, covering watermark scaling to avoid direct reclaim storms, dirty page writeback thresholds, swap and overcommit settings, transparent huge page pitfalls, NUMA zone reclaim, CPU governor and IRQ affinity, and Kubernetes CFS quota throttling solutions.

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Linux CPU & Memory Tuning: Prevent Freezes, Direct Reclaim Storms & CFS Throttling

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Nov 13, 2022 · Fundamentals

Understanding JDK NIO File I/O and Linux Kernel Mechanisms: Buffered vs Direct IO, Page Cache, and Dirty Page Management

This article provides a comprehensive analysis of how JDK NIO performs file read and write operations by examining the underlying Linux kernel mechanisms, including the differences between Buffered and Direct IO, the structure and management of the page cache, file readahead algorithms, and the kernel parameters governing dirty page writeback.

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Understanding JDK NIO File I/O and Linux Kernel Mechanisms: Buffered vs Direct IO, Page Cache, and Dirty Page Management