From 089668356073e5f0718cfe65d6f4080e53df868b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tiziano Zito Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 16:06:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] add note about additional materials --- README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 94982f9..2e248f1 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -81,3 +81,10 @@ Notes on the [Python benchmark](benchmark_python/): ## Concluding remarks - how is all of this relevant for the users of a computing cluster? - Never trust benchmarks! See for example [Producing Wrong Data Without Doing Anything Obviously Wrong!](https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/courses/322-2013-spring/mytkowicz-wrong-data.pdf) + +## Additional material if there's time left +- how does memory *allocation* to processes work at the OS level? + - virtual memory + - swap + - optimistic over-committing allocation policies + - the oom-killer watchdog