Re: New dirty tricks in Red Hat 5.x

From: Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_bogus.email.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 05:56:11 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <gv2qdr$dd5$2_at_solani.org>

Na Thu, 21 May 2009 05:51:28 +0000, Mladen Gogala napisao:

> Na Wed, 20 May 2009 23:35:45 +0200, The Boss napisao:
>

>> Mladen Gogala wrote:
>>> 1) CFS and ionice
>> <...>
>>> 2) VDSO (Virtual Dynamic Shared Object)
>> <...>
>>> 3) Blockdev
>> <...>
>>> 4) Readahead.
>> <...>
>> 
>> These are all kernel-related, so not specific to Red Hat? I seem to
>> recall having seen at least CFS and VDSO in other distributions'
>> documentation (SUSE).

>
> I only use Red Hat and CentOS. I was blissfully ignorant about other
> distributions until yesterday, when I replaced F10 with Ubuntu. So far,
> it's not that bad. And yes, most of those things are kernel related.

BTW, speaking about distros, I just fell in love: http://www.nexenta.org/os

This is a Linux distribution with an OpenSolaris kernel. Can you imagine that? Dtrace and all? Solaris is miles ahead of Linux in terms of kernel usability and reliability.

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