Re: Why does Linux crash?

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Apropos this discussion:

The original poster does have a point:  resource allocation and process 
isolation are core o/s functions.

I've never really given a lot of thought to the details - for most of 
the servers I've set up over the years, everything has pretty much just 
worked (under Solaris for a while, then Redhat, these days Debian).  To 
the extent that I've tuned resource consumption, I've mostly done it 
across Xen virtual machines.

But now that someone's raised the question:  Can somebody suggest a good 
reference for an overview of the resource management philosophy, 
architecture, tools, and defaults for both the Linux kernel and for Debian?

Miles Fidelman

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