Tag: memory

  • Checking NVMe SSD Temps

    Checking NVMe SSD Temps

    This simple tutorial shows how you can check the temperature of your NVMe SSD on Linux using both terminal and GUI methods. Recently, NVMe, short for Non-Volatile Memory Express drives, has become the go-to storage option for modern desktops. Unlike traditional hard drives, NVMe drives are significantly faster, allowing for quicker boot times, faster file…

  • Memory UE Handling and HWpoison Injection

    Memory UE Handling and HWpoison Injection

    This blog covers userspace memory Uncorrectable Error(UE) handling by the Linux kernel, userspace handler, as well as the test strategy on Intel/AMD platforms. Kernel memory UE handling, memory scrubbing methods, and device memory UE are out of scope. Suppose during the life time of a mission critical application process, a DIMM cell suddenly goes bad,…

  • Improved System Monitor App

    Improved System Monitor App

    A new version of Mission Center, the super-slick system monitor for Linux, has been released. I’ve written about this utility a number of times before (here and on OMG! Linux) so if you read this or that blog you—aside from being awesome—may already be familiar with it. And if you’re not? Well, you’re in for…

  • GNOME Linux systems exposed to RCE attacks

    GNOME Linux systems exposed to RCE attacks

    A memory corruption vulnerability in the open-source libcue library can let attackers execute arbitrary code on Linux systems running the GNOME desktop environment. “libcue”, a library designed for parsing cue sheet files, is integrated into the Tracker Miners file metadata indexer, which is included by default in the latest GNOME versions. Cue sheets (or CUE…