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Do Operating Systems need to know which is the hardware architecture on which they are executing?
Maybe this is a basic theoric question, but I have no idea of the answer and haven't found information of this.
Do Operating Systems (imagine Windows or Linux distros) need to know if they are ...
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Virtualbox on high resolution monitor using all CPU even when idle
I have a Windows 10 laptop, where I need to run a Linux 16.04 inside Oracle VirtualBox. The issue is that the resolution of my laptop is 3000x1500 and having such a high resolution is causing my Linux ...
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Does the chipset also determines installablility of 32bit OS or 64bit OS?
I have Fujitsu Lifebook A6025 with Pentium T2130 and Intel® 945GM/ ICH7-M chipset according to the spec. I want to upgrade the CPU to Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile T7400(Socket M) CPU. The T2130 CPU ...
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Processors and virtual/physical addresses
In nutshell, as I understand memory management, processor produces virtual addresses. These addresses are translated to corresponding physical addresses using per-process address table by MMU (with ...
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How can cpu-intensive processes slow down a system despite having a scheduler?
I've encountered it on both Windows and Linux that if some process is doing some heavy work and the cpu is under a lot of stress, the whole system can sort of freeze, other processes get slow, etc. ...
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Is having more CPU cores a better thing for running a web server?
I was reading about how User threads are mapped to kernel threads on Wikipedia. From this article I understand that FreeBSD uses the 1:1 (Kernel-level threading).
So each User thread created by the ...
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32-bit or 64-bit OS? [duplicate]
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32-bit vs. 64-bit systems
I just built a new box which has an i7 3820 running as CPU.
I usually run linux distros on my boxes. Is it best to go with a 64-bit distro with ...
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Is my laptop processor 64bit?
I have a Lenovo Ideapad Y510. I have always used 32bit OS in it. Yesterday I came across this detail of my laptop and it says processor of my laptop is 64bit (hope I have not misinterpret anything) so ...
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Testing an embedded device processor [closed]
I am writing some tests to test the processor on an embedded device (running on Linux). The device shell supports Ash, python and I can even run C code after compilation in scratchbox.
Can you give ...
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Kernel and User mode distinguishing
Who is responsible for determining that the process is in the Kernel mode or User mode? I know kernel knows which process is belong to what space, but how the CPU determines that? I mean should CPU be ...
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