1)multitasking: several programs running at the same time is called multitasking.
2)multiuser: several users on the same machine at the same time through different terminals/from remote hosts.
3)multiplatform: runs on many different CPUs, not just Intel like AMD too.
4)multiprocessor: SMP(Symetri multi processing) support is available on the Intel and SPARC platforms (with work currently in progress on other platforms), and Linux is used in several loosely-coupled MP applications.
5)multithreading: has native kernel … Continue Reading
Archive for October, 2008
Advanced Swap management
Actually its advantageous if we create swap partition separately if the server is not having any raw space left what we can do ? At any cost we have to increase the swap to improve the system productivity
To come out of this situation there is one solution provided by Linux e.i we can create a swap file with in all ready existing and using partition if that partition is having sufficient
Swap management - I
Step1:First check what is the swap space the system is having and utilization of swap size
#free -m
#swapon -s
-s for st
#cat /proc/swaps
this will give output of swap statistics in Megabytes(m), if we want the output in Kilobytes then free -k
Step2:Before starting the Swap management we have to take precautions such as switch off all the swap and no user should be logged in … Continue Reading
