Computer Class Homework Help Needed (XP vs Fedora Core)

[Larry_OHF]

Originally Posted by MagiK Yeah ... you like, you know...have to actually KNOW what you are doing in UNIX oh and LINUX isn't really UNIX...and in AIX "top" is known as "topas" cause IBM just HAS to be different. Larry feel free to drop me email if you have UNIX issues, I can help out usually When using top I would skip the delay parameter, never had to use it myself. If you watch the percentage of disk usage and you see any devices at 100% you can guess that there is a disk bottleneck....not working today so dont have screenies for ya. sorry. In modern SAN environments though you arent actually writing to "Disks" everything is being written to cache memory so the disk devices showing 100% are actually pointing to a bandwidth issue on the interfaces....but I digress.

Thanks to all those that helped! I have enough now with the posts here and what I found elsewhere to get the work done.

By the way, to answer the question as to why Fedora Core 4...my manual is "guide to parallel operating systems with WinXP and Linux. Here it is. It was written two years ago but this is what the instructor asked us to buy.