Sun.Oct 01, 2023

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32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine

Randon ASCII

Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature. However: They didn’t document this (!) Their implementation doesn’t actually save memory The implementation can have a prohibitively high CPU cost This feature works by limiting the working set of a process – the amount of memory mapped into the address-space of the process – to 32 MiB.

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Kernel of a good strategy - Why, How and What

Abhishek Tiwari

In the rapidly changing landscape of business, having a well-defined strategy is crucial for success. A good strategy should address the core problems or challenges faced by a business, provide guiding principles on how to tackle them, and be supported by the coherent actions and right resources. In this article, we will explore the core elements of a good strategy.

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How to Debug an Unresponsive Elasticsearch Cluster

DZone

Elasticsearch is an open-source search engine and analytics store used by a variety of applications from search in e-commerce stores, to internal log management tools using the ELK stack (short for “Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana”). As a distributed database, your data is partitioned into “shards” which are then allocated to one or more servers. Because of this sharding, a read or write request to an Elasticsearch cluster requires coordinating between multiple nodes as there is no “global view”