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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Are the BSDs dying? Post 303012227 by Neo on Wednesday 31st of January 2018 11:15:49 PM

02-01-2018

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There is nothing "dead" about BSD. BSD lives in the heart and soul of MacOS, and MacOS is a very popular computer operating system. All software changes over time, and BSD is no exception and BSD changed the heart of the MacOS forever:

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BSD Overview

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BSD Overview

The BSD portion of the OS X kernel is derived primarily from FreeBSD, a version of 4.4BSD that offers advanced networking, performance, security, and compatibility features. BSD variants in general are derived (sometimes indirectly) from 4.4BSD-Lite Release 2 from the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California at Berkeley. BSD provides many advanced features, including the following:

Preemptive multitasking with dynamic priority adjustment. Smooth and fair sharing of the computer between applications and users is ensured, even under the heaviest of loads.

Multiuser access. Many people can use an OS X system simultaneously for a variety of things. This means, for example, that system peripherals such as printers and disk drives are properly shared between all users on the system or the network and that individual resource limits can be placed on users or groups of users, protecting critical system resources from overuse.

Strong TCP/IP networking with support for industry standards such as SLIP, PPP, and NFS. OS X can interoperate easily with other systems as well as act as an enterprise server, providing vital functions such as NFS (remote file access) and email services, or Internet services such as HTTP, FTP, routing, and firewall (security) services.
Memory protection. Applications cannot interfere with each other. One application crashing does not affect others in any way.

Virtual memory and dynamic memory allocation. Applications with large appetites for memory are satisfied while still maintaining interactive response to users. With the virtual memory system in OS X, each application has access to its own 4 GB memory address space; this should satisfy even the most memory-hungry applications.
Support for kernel threads based on Mach threads. User-level threading packages are implemented on top of kernel threads. Each kernel thread is an independently scheduled entity. When a thread from a user process blocks in a system call, other threads from the same process can continue to execute on that or other processors. By default, a process in the conventional sense has one thread, the main thread. A user process can use the POSIX thread API to create other user threads.

SMP support. Support is included for computers with multiple CPUs.

Source code. Developers gain the greatest degree of control over the BSD programming environment because source is included.

Many of the POSIX APIs.

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hostinfo

hostinfo(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					       hostinfo(8)

NAME

     hostinfo -- host information

SYNOPSIS

     hostinfo

DESCRIPTION

     The hostinfo command displays information about the host system on which the command is executing.  The output includes a	kernel version
     description, processor configuration data, available physical memory, and various scheduling statistics.

OPTIONS

     There are no options.

DISPLAY

	   Mach kernel version:
	   The version string compiled into the kernel executing on the host system.

	   Processor Configuration:
	   The maximum possible processors for which the kernel is configured, followed by the number of physical and logical processors avail-
	   able.

	   Note: on Intel architectures, physical processors are referred to as cores, and logical processors are referred to as hardware threads;
	   there may be multiple logical processors per core and multiple cores per processor package.	This command does not report the number of
	   processor packages.

	   Processor type:
	   The host's processor type and subtype.

	   Processor active:
	   A list of active processors on the host system.  Active processors are members of a processor set and are ready to dispatch threads.
	   On a single processor system, the active processor, is processor 0.

	   Primary memory available:
	   The amount of physical memory that is configured for use on the host system.

	   Default processor set:
	   Displays the number of tasks currently assigned to the host processor set, the number of threads currently assigned to the host proces-
	   sor set, and the number of processors included in the host processor set.

	   Load average:
	   Measures the average number of threads in the run queue.

	   Mach factor:
	   A variant of the load average which measures the processing resources available to a new thread.  Mach factor is based on the number of
	   CPUs divided by (1 + the number of runnablethreads) or the number of CPUs minus the number of runnable threads when the number of
	   runnable threads is less than the number of CPUs.  The closer the Mach factor value is to zero, the higher the load.  On an idle system
	   with a fixed number of active processors, the mach factor will be equal to the number of CPUs.

SEE ALSO

     sysctl(8)

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