System resource
Any physical or virtual component of limited availability within a computer system.
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URI fragment
In computer hypertext, a URI fragment is a string of characters that refers to a resource that is subordinate to another, primary resource.
Light-weight Linux distribution
One that uses lower memory and/or has less processor-speed requirements than a more "feature-rich" Linux distribution.
The lower demands on hardware ideally result in a more responsive machine, and/or allow devices with fewer system resources (e.g. older or embedded hardware) to be used productively.
Priority inheritance
Method for eliminating unbounded priority inversion.
Using this programming method, a process scheduling algorithm increases the priority of a process (A) to the maximum priority of any other process waiting for any resource on which A has a resource lock (if it is higher than the original priority of A).
Procfs
Special filesystem in Unix-like operating systems that presents information about processes and other system information in a hierarchical file-like structure, providing a more convenient and standardized method for dynamically accessing process data held in the kernel than traditional tracing methods or direct access to kernel memory.
/proc/interrupts, /proc/iomem, /proc/ioports and the directory /proc/irq, giving some details about the devices (physical or logical) using the various system resources
GNOME Web
Free and open-source web browser based on the GTK port of Apple's WebKit rendering engine, called WebKitGTK.
As a component of GNOME Core Applications, it provides full integration with GNOME settings and other components like GNOME Keyring to securely store passwords, following the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines and the GNOME software stack to provide first-class support for the all new-adopted edge technologies such as Wayland and the latest major GTK versions, multimedia support using GStreamer, small package size (2.6MB) and very fast execution/startup time due to using shared components; other features include the reader mode, mouse gestures, smart bookmarks, praised web application integration mechanism, built-in ad blocking, the "Insert Emoji" option in the context menu for quick and easy inserting of Emoji and Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs into the text boxes, Google Safe Browsing, supports reading and saving MHTML, an archive format for web pages that combines all the files of web pages into only one single file; and consume fewer system resources than the major cross-platform web browsers.
Capacity management
To ensure that information technology resources are sufficient to meet upcoming business requirements cost-effectively.
Influences on demand for computing resources
Asynchronous I/O
Form of input/output processing that permits other processing to continue before the transmission has finished.
But such an approach (called synchronous I/O, or blocking I/O) would block the progress of a program while the communication is in progress, leaving system resources idle.
Speculative execution
Optimization technique where a computer system performs some task that may not be needed.
The objective is to provide more concurrency if extra resources are available.
Privilege escalation
Privilege escalation is the act of exploiting a bug, a design flaw, or a configuration oversight in an operating system or software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.
Handle leak
A handle leak is a type of software bug that occurs when a computer program asks for a handle to a resource but does not free the handle when it is no longer used.