From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 10 21:29:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from eagle.he.net (eagle.he.net [216.218.174.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA0237B404 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:29:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from anjali ([61.11.16.239] (may be forged)) by eagle.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with SMTP id VAA19642; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:29:15 -0800 Message-ID: <007601c1b2bc$c7758c90$0a00a8c0@indranet> From: "Anjali Kulkarni" To: "Julian Elischer" Cc: "Michael Lucas" , References: Subject: Re: Zones Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:56:40 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I meant is there something in Linux akin in *functionality* to the zones of FreeBSD? So, in Linux, the name might not be "zones" but the functionality should be the same as the zones of FreeBSD. To answer this question, one should know what zones in FreeBSD are, quite well. So, for example, zone allocation is really fast because large memory is pre-allocated and is kept as a linked list of free elements, and you cannot really free a zone to the system till all elements of that zone are free etc.(I dont know a lot about zones myself, otherwise I wouldnt need to ask this question). Something in Linux which achives the same result... And I think there are a few people(who were) involved in Linux development on this list, so I posted it here. Regards, Anjali ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julian Elischer" To: "Anjali Kulkarni" Cc: "Michael Lucas" ; Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 12:09 AM Subject: Re: Zones > well he may speak for only himself.. > > as for me I have no idea what a 'zone' is in Linux.. > > timezone? > memory zone allocator in the kernel? > routing zones? > > > On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Anjali Kulkarni wrote: > > > Thanks for your reminder. I guess I didnt realize they would consider > > simple and easy beneath their dignity. > > > > Truly sorry for the trouble this one email caused you and others, > > Regards, > > Anjali > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Michael Lucas" > > To: "Anjali Kulkarni" > > Cc: > > Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 3:11 PM > > Subject: Re: Zones > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Your best bet for general questions is the > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailig list. > > > > > > It might be quick and easy, but historically, the people in -hackers > > > are not interested in quick and easy. They're more interested in > > > long, drawn-out, and complicated. > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 02:23:17PM +0530, Anjali Kulkarni wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > This is probably not the right place for this qs., but I am posting it > > here since it's a quick & easy one. Does something like the FreeBSD zones > > exist in Linux ? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Anjali > > > > > > -- > > > Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org > > > my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons > > > > > > http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message