[SunHELP] Solaris

[Dale Ghent]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, bobo166 wrote:

| I have some very general questions about the Solaris operating system.
| 
| 1.  How is process management handled?

Standard unix commands... kill, renice, as well as priocntl.

| 2.  What information is maintained about a process in the system?

Again.. standard UNIX rules apply... use the ps command.

| 3.  How is interprocess communication handled? (ex. semaphores)

semaphores, POSIX IPC, Solaris doors.

| 4.  What CPU scheduling algorithm is used? (ex. round robin, shortest
| job first, etc.)

That would depend on the class the process is executing under.... being
Real Time (RT), Interative (IA) and Time Share (TS). Each has their own
different scheduling ways.

If you want to know more about Solaris internals... Get the book _Solaris
Kernel Archetecture_. It'll answer your specific questions.

/dale