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Fernando Simões
Personal blog · frn.shsystemsprogramming
Fernando Simões's personal blog at frn.sh covers systems and programming. Since 2025, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-09-13
- Page Table Memory Consumption3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-01
- Io_uring Without Readahead2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-01
- Postgres got group commit by deleting most of the patch2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-21
- Where did 400 MiB go?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-21
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Io_uring Without Readahead as a story · 121 points
HN discussionSubmitted A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap as a story · 117 points
HN discussionSubmitted Page Table Memory Consumption as a story · 78 points
HN discussionSubmitted A 40ms Go GC pause caused by swap as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted 40ms Go GC stop-the-world pauses caused by swap as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Page table memory consumption as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A 40ms Go GC pause caused by swap as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding copy-on-write: why Redis needs memory overcommit as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Page Table Memory Consumption as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postgres got group commit by deleting most of the patch as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted io_uring without readahead as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What an 8kb Postgres read costs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where did 400 MiB go? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flipping two bytes to stop ls from being a program as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What happens inside Postgres when IOPS runs out as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swap, memory pressure and the Go GC as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The lock around WAL flush as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 1193 back ends waiting on an append as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reading a cryptominer from its strace as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Investigating Node.js memory bloat: V8 lazy GC and glibc arena fragmentation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three Cache Layers Between Select and Disk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is a Program? as a story · 1 points
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