The short answer to this question is that none of these values are a reliable indicator of how much memory an executable is actually using, and none of them are really appropriate for debugging a memory leak. Private Bytes refer to the amount of memory that the process executable has asked for – not necessarily … Read more
You can use: System.getProperty(“os.name”) P.S. You may find this code useful: class ShowProperties { public static void main(String[] args) { System.getProperties().list(System.out); } } All it does is print out all the properties provided by your Java implementations. It’ll give you an idea of what you can find out about your Java environment via properties. 🙂
There are a lot of links after this brief overview of what is involved in writing an OS for the X86 platform. The link that appears to be most promising (www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles) is no longer available, so you’ll need to poke through the Archive.org version to read it. At the end of the day the bootloader … Read more
>>> import os >>> os.name ‘posix’ >>> import platform >>> platform.system() ‘Linux’ >>> platform.release() ‘2.6.22-15-generic’ The output of platform.system() is as follows: Linux: Linux Mac: Darwin Windows: Windows See: platform — Access to underlying platform’s identifying data
They are NOT the same thing. They are used for different purposes! While both types of semaphores have a full/empty state and use the same API, their usage is very different. Mutual Exclusion Semaphores Mutual Exclusion semaphores are used to protect shared resources (data structure, file, etc..). A Mutex semaphore is “owned” by the task … Read more
Both processes and threads are independent sequences of execution. The typical difference is that threads (of the same process) run in a shared memory space, while processes run in separate memory spaces. I’m not sure what “hardware” vs “software” threads you might be referring to. Threads are an operating environment feature, rather than a CPU … Read more