Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-27 Thread Cesar Da Silva
Thank you Jeff for your very helpfull answer. --- Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > Cesar Da Silva wrote: > > * Alternative I/O Pathing > > be less vague What I mean with the above (my defenition) is: [Alternative I/O Pathing allows the operating system to re-route the I/O of devices,

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-27 Thread Cesar Da Silva
--- Ville Herva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > > > * Dynamic Memory Resilience > > > > RAM fault tolerance? There was a patch a long > time ago which detected > > bad ram, and would mark those memory clusters as > unuseable at boot. > > However that is clearly not dynamic. > > If you are

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-27 Thread Cesar Da Silva
--- Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > On Sun, 27 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Cesar Da Silva > wrote: > > > I am doing a thesis about comparing the Linux > kernel > > against HP-UX, AIX, Tru64 UNIX, and Solaris (as > you > > probably alredy know). > > I'm stuck now (and the thesis has to bee

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-27 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 27 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Cesar Da Silva wrote: > I am doing a thesis about comparing the Linux kernel > against HP-UX, AIX, Tru64 UNIX, and Solaris (as you > probably alredy know). > I'm stuck now (and the thesis has to bee ready until > tomorow) Aren't you the same guy who posted this

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-27 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 10:27:09PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > * Service Location Protocol (SLP) www.openslp.org Regards Ingo Oeser -- To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-27 Thread James Sutherland
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Cesar Da Silva wrote: > > The features that I'm wondering about are: > > * Dynamic Processor Resilience > > is this fault tolerance? I think if a CPU croaks, you are dead. > > There are patches for hot swap cpu support, but I haven't seen any CPU >

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-27 Thread James Sutherland
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: Cesar Da Silva wrote: The features that I'm wondering about are: * Dynamic Processor Resilience is this fault tolerance? I think if a CPU croaks, you are dead. There are patches for hot swap cpu support, but I haven't seen any CPU fault

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-27 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 10:27:09PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: * Service Location Protocol (SLP) www.openslp.org Regards Ingo Oeser -- To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-27 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 27 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Cesar Da Silva wrote: I am doing a thesis about comparing the Linux kernel against HP-UX, AIX, Tru64 UNIX, and Solaris (as you probably alredy know). I'm stuck now (and the thesis has to bee ready until tomorow) Aren't you the same guy who posted this

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-27 Thread Cesar Da Silva
--- Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: On Sun, 27 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Cesar Da Silva wrote: I am doing a thesis about comparing the Linux kernel against HP-UX, AIX, Tru64 UNIX, and Solaris (as you probably alredy know). I'm stuck now (and the thesis has to bee ready until

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-27 Thread Cesar Da Silva
--- Ville Herva [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev:* Dynamic Memory Resilience RAM fault tolerance? There was a patch a long time ago which detected bad ram, and would mark those memory clusters as unuseable at boot. However that is clearly not dynamic. If you are referring to Badram

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-27 Thread Cesar Da Silva
Thank you Jeff for your very helpfull answer. --- Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Cesar Da Silva wrote: * Alternative I/O Pathing be less vague What I mean with the above (my defenition) is: [Alternative I/O Pathing allows the operating system to re-route the I/O of devices, such

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jonathan Morton wrote: > > >> * Live Upgrade > > > >LOBOS will let one Linux kernel boot another, but that requires a boot > >step, so it is not a live upgrade. so, no, afaik > > If you build nearly everything (except, obviously what you need to boot) as > modules, you can unload modules,

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-26 Thread Jonathan Morton
>> * Live Upgrade > >LOBOS will let one Linux kernel boot another, but that requires a boot >step, so it is not a live upgrade. so, no, afaik If you build nearly everything (except, obviously what you need to boot) as modules, you can unload modules, build new versions, and reload them. So,

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Cesar Da Silva wrote: > The features that I'm wondering about are: > * Dynamic Processor Resilience is this fault tolerance? I think if a CPU croaks, you are dead. There are patches for hot swap cpu support, but I haven't seen any CPU fault tolerance patches that can handle a dead processor >

Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-26 Thread Cesar Da Silva
Hi again. I am doing a thesis about comparing the Linux kernel against HP-UX, AIX, Tru64 UNIX, and Solaris (as you probably alredy know). I'm stuck now (and the thesis has to bee ready until tomorow) with some few features that the other operating system have, and I can't find any information

Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-26 Thread Cesar Da Silva
Hi again. I am doing a thesis about comparing the Linux kernel against HP-UX, AIX, Tru64 UNIX, and Solaris (as you probably alredy know). I'm stuck now (and the thesis has to bee ready until tomorow) with some few features that the other operating system have, and I can't find any information

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Cesar Da Silva wrote: The features that I'm wondering about are: * Dynamic Processor Resilience is this fault tolerance? I think if a CPU croaks, you are dead. There are patches for hot swap cpu support, but I haven't seen any CPU fault tolerance patches that can handle a dead processor *

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-26 Thread Jonathan Morton
* Live Upgrade LOBOS will let one Linux kernel boot another, but that requires a boot step, so it is not a live upgrade. so, no, afaik If you build nearly everything (except, obviously what you need to boot) as modules, you can unload modules, build new versions, and reload them. So, you

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jonathan Morton wrote: * Live Upgrade LOBOS will let one Linux kernel boot another, but that requires a boot step, so it is not a live upgrade. so, no, afaik If you build nearly everything (except, obviously what you need to boot) as modules, you can unload modules, build new