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Linux Kernel Overview

IBM
Sandra Johnson, Gerrit Huizenga, and Badari Pulavarty

Book Excerpt

February 2006

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Now that you've made important decisions about how to install Linux on your system, you need to learn more about the Linux kernel to make important tuning decisions. We'll discuss how Linux evolved and then delve into its architecture. We'll include information on how the kernel is organized, what its responsibilities are, and how memory management is handled. We'll discuss process management and interprocess communication, followed by an overview of the Linux Symmetrical Multiprocessing Model. Finally, we'll examine the Linux file systems.

This chapter is excerpted from the book titled: "Performance Tuning for Linux® Servers", edited by By Sandra Johnson, Gerrit Huizenga, Badari Pulavarty, Copyright 2005 by International Business Machines Corporation. ISBN: 013144753X; Published: May 27, 2005 Reproduced by permission of Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.





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