Archive for the ‘OS Basic’ Category

Fedora 13 is out

Fedora 13 comes out with lots of good features. You can download the images at the http://www.fedoraproject.org/ , but it’ll take some time because of heavy request from around the world. It’ll be better to take one or two days before start downloading. If you can’t wait a second and you already use Fedora 8 [...]

Where can I find kernel cmdline parameter parsing code?

I was wondering what highmem parameter affect to the system, so I tried to dig into the kernel code. But, I had to spend so many hours to find the starting point. This is the code, I finally found and I want to keep it here for later use. http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.11/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c 668static void __init parse_cmdline_early (char [...]

Unix Top command

If you are unix guys, you know well about ‘top’ command which display very useful information about the system usage. I also used this a lot during check the system states. But, in recent, one of my customer asked me about the difference between ‘CPU states:’ field and each process’s cpu usage. He asked why [...]

Simple Operating System example

I found this on ther web. Very simple but compresensive one. You can learn how operating system start works. http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=3570&lngWId=3