Content here is by Michael Still, mikal@stillhq.com.
I spent much of yesterday playing with KSM (Kernel Shared Memory, or Kernel Samepage Merging depending on which universe you come from). Unix kernels store memory in “pages” which are moved in and out of memory as a single block. On most Linux architectures pages are 4,096 bytes long. KSM is a Linux Kernel feature…
The first public commit to what would become OpenStack Nova was made ten years ago today — at Thu May 27 23:05:26 2010 PDT to be exact. So first off, happy tenth birthday to Nova! A lot has happened in that time — OpenStack has gone from being two separate Open Source projects to a…