Quote Originally Posted by LightBit View Post
I didn't say BSD or Solaris has better performance. You think Linux is perfect?
Some things are not fully compatible, like stability and performance.
You were saying Linux is not as reliable and that's what I was talking about here. The stability and performance is tunable and that's a good thing.

So tell me which hack was that?
The one that caused an application to be killed. I don't know what they did. Maybe it's the hack from your article?

True. Linux is next.
Not true. Linux is less bloated than Windows, BSD, Solaris. I'm not talking about kernel size, but about things like ability to run unmodified kernel in embedded systems.

"Mode 2 (which is new in 2.6) is certainly an improvement over modes 0 and 1 available in the older versions of the Linux kernel. However, mode 2 doesn't mean that memory will never be overcommitted. It just uses a different heuristic for guessing how much memory is safe to allow to be allocated."
And this quote is from Solaris devs? This is from the Linux kernel documentation:

http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Docum...mit-accounting


Don't overcommit. The total address space commit for the system is not permitted to exceed swap + a configurable percentage (default is 50) of physical RAM.
growing rapidly = getting bloated
Just a size of a package and number lines of code. You're running just a few percent of entire Linux.