Glossary
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active memory
This is memory that has recently been used by the kernel and that can be accessed relatively fast.
anchor value
This is a value used in performance optimization that can be used as the default value to which the results of performance tests can be compared.
anticipatory scheduler
This is the I/O scheduler that tries to predict the next read operation. In particular, this scheduler is useful in optimizing read requests.
authoritative name servers
In DNS, this is a name server that has the authority to give information about resource records that are in the DNS database.
automount
This is a system implemented using the autofs daemon and that allows file systems to be mounted automatically when they are needed.
B
Bash
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