On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Surya Prakki <Surya.Prakki at sun.com> wrote: > Anil Gulecha wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Angad Singh <angad at angadsingh.in> wrote: >> >>> This is awesome. reboot -f, and you're done. Way cool. >>> >>> So if I have read the ARC case correctly, then this would load up a second >>> instance of the kernel into RAM and then switch over to the new instance and >>> kill the old one. So it would in turn require a lot of RAM, wouldn't it.
Something similar on the Linux front: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-kexec.html?ca=dgr-lnxw09RebootFast >>> >> >> The miniroot is basically under 200 mb. So my guess is you'd need ~200 >> of free RAM to switch to the new kernel. This should be fine in >> systems with 1 Gb RAM, or maybe even in 512 Mb ones. >> >> Anil >> ______ > Intent seems to be that, 1TB memory systems are not far away and BIOS spends > more than few minutes initializing all of it...part of which could be > delayed to a > later time. > -surya > >> _________________________________________ >> ug-bosug mailing list >> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >> > > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > -- Amit Kumar Saha http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/ http://amitksaha.blogspot.com Skype: amitkumarsaha
