If you’ve ever wondered how much memory a process uses, you’ve probably used a form of task manager or system monitor. System monitors can be useful to identify resource hogs, but are often less ...

When it comes to system administration, one of the earliest decisions to be made is how to configure swap space. Many readers already are thinking they know what to do: throw in as much RAM as you can ...

Unlike my recent spoof story about a Linux-powered Iron Man suit that you could build at home, this story isn’t science fiction. NASA really has decided to drop Windows from the laptops on the ...

The United Space Alliance, which manages the computers aboard the International Space Station in association with NASA, has announced that the Windows XP computers aboard the ISS have been switched to ...

There are many ways to evaluate disk space usage on Linux, and this post examines a number of commands that allow you to view used and available disk space. The df command stands for “disk free” and, ...

Has a single concern ever been as much of a hassle for sys admins as storage space? It seems there's always resources and attention being dedicated to managing storage capacity, whether it's exploding ...