There is lots of Linux right now. Apparently Con Kolivas, one of the Kernel hackers left, because his fair kernel scheduler was rejected by Linus, and later a similar scheduler was accepted. Here are some info http://apcmag.com/6735/interview_con_kolivas
It seems that Linux's scheduler is now aimed at the server market (fast disc I/O) whereas Con Kolivas scheduler was for the desktop (fast interaction GUI). There seems that these two are mutually exclusive. My question is, how is Solaris kernel? It would be very interesting to know, without having to be a kernel hacker and read the source code. Anyone care to explain? Another question, is this filesystem allocation ok? Ive heard something weird about Solaris /tmp that shares it with swap partition or something? Are they both the same? swap and /tmp??? I am installing Solaris to a 250GB drive. First I thought of making one single partition for Solaris and one for windows XP. I thought of using around 100GB for Solaris and the rest for Windows. How about this setup? Generally I want a file system that gets frequently to, as a separate partition (because of fragmentation). If a file system never gets written to, it is ok to put all them together on one slice. Any suggestions? Is /tmp too small? Im a Unix noob and dont really know what sizes are appropriate or typical for a Unix installation. Are there any other file systems listed that gets frequently modified? /var - 3GB (log files, writes here frequently?) /tmp - 3GB (unsure of this, but frequently written? is it same as swap?) / - 30GB (I maybe want to install Brandz and Linux, and Linux software on top, like matlab, etc. Also I will install Wine and Windows stuff on top, like Diablo2, Starcraft, etc.) /home - 50GB (downloading big files, when installing via CBE package installer it is good with a dedicated CBE user that downloads binary packages and compiles them in /home/cbe, and finally installs to /) /swap - 2GB (have 1GB RAM now, plan to upgrade to Quad core and 4GB RAM later - heard that swap should be twice as large as RAM, but that recommendation doesnt hold anymore?) Then I will have two FAT32 partition at 32.768MB (the largest possible FAT32 size without using unconventional tricks) for sharing files with Windows XP. If Solaris needs more space I can convert one FAT32 to UFS if the need should arise. The rest of the disc will be Windows XP system disc - 30GB and NTFS for the left over This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
