Rik van Riel

Diary, kernel patches, and lectures.

Rik's diary

Rik's diary. This weblog diary is here to let other people know what I'm doing. That way they can know when to (not) bother me or just know why I'm ...

WANTED: fundamental CS research

WANTED: fundamental CS research. In the last decades, CS research in many universities seems to have focussed on the same trendy areas (OO design, UML, ...

Procps patches

Patches for procps. Since somebody needed to do it, I've taken on the job of updating procps to stay in sync with the changes that happen in the Linux ...

Rik van Riel's Linux patches

Rik van Riel's Linux kernel patches. The patches on this page are mostly performance improvements and enhancements to the Linux kernel. ...

Lectures by Rik

Lectures. If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system. -- Linus Torvalds ...

Patch of the month

Patch of the month. This page is there to store patches that should not be allowed to drown into the thousands of other lines of code, but should be ...

NEWS: what has changed recently with procps, in reverse ...

NEWS: what has changed recently with procps, in reverse cronological order. Please send bug reports to procps-bugs@redhat.com NEWS for version 2.0.10 of ...

"Too little, too slow" An introduction to memory management and an ...

"Too little, too slow" An introduction to memory management and an overview of Linux 2.5 MM. Rik van Riel riel@conectiva.com.br 1) Introduction to memory ...

Page replacement in Linux 2.4 memory management

Page replacement in Linux 2.4 memory management. ... Page replacement in Linux 2.4 memory management. Rik van Riel Conectiva Inc. riel@conectiva.com.br, ...