Exploring Linux Memory Usage and IO Performance in Cloud Native Applications

Talk by Frits Hoogland
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In this session, we'll explore how memory allocation at the container or operating system level influences the performance of buffered disk IO. We'll also examine Linux memory management details and the different ways to perform disk IO. From there, we'll walk through a number of examples that reveal the typical dynamics of cached and non-cached IOs, as well as the differences between the two.