I think one of the greatest mysteries in Unix (to me anyway) is the definition of "Shared Memory"
When you do a "top" for example, the division of shared, virtual, etc memories can be quite confusing. The definition of shared memory has always been "resources shared among processes" (as I recall) yet it is often displayed in very large chunks, or with each process having a large chunk of shared memory. Anyway, just something I've always been about 60% clear on :) We won't even start on the utime algorithm @_@ another Unix mystery William -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roger E. Rustad, Jr. Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 11:38 PM To: 909linux.org general mailing list Subject: [909linux] on nix processes I semi-recently got grilled on processes on *nix systems in an interview. Since then, I've done a lot of reading and today found this article nicely explaining the basics: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-speakingunix8/?ca=d gr-lnxw01speakunix8 _______________________________________________ 909linux mailing list [email protected] http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux
