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Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) in Embedded Systems

DZone

Embedded systems have become an integral part of our daily lives, from smartphones and home appliances to medical devices and industrial machinery. These systems are designed to perform specific tasks efficiently, often in real-time, without the complexities of a general-purpose computer.

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Exploring Operating Systems and Distributions: A Comprehensive Overview

DZone

Operating systems (OS) are the foundation of computers, allowing people to communicate with devices and administer software. From the dawn of computers to the present day, a multitude of operating systems and distributions have emerged to meet the different demands and tastes of users.

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Unveiling Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS): The Heartbeat of Modern Embedded Systems

DZone

In the realm of operating systems, the Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) stands out as a specialized player, tailored for applications where timeliness and determinism are paramount. What Is an RTOS? It ensures that high-priority tasks are executed predictably, meeting their deadlines.

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Desupport of monitoring for legacy 32-bit operating systems

Dynatrace

We’re continuously working to support the most popular operating systems with high quality OneAgent deployment options. Of course, it’s possible to run a legacy 32-bit application on a 64-bit operating system. Dynatrace news. We currently support several 32-bit variants of Windows 7, Windows 8.1,

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MySQL Memory Management, Memory Allocators, and Operating System

DZone

When users experience memory usage issues with any software, including MySQL, their first response is to think that it’s a symptom of a memory leak. As this story will show, this is not always the case. This story is about a bug.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems.

All Things Distributed

Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems. This weekends back-to-basics reading is on operating system virtualization. There are two papers that deserve the "classic" tag as they both form the basis for operating system virtualization that is in production today. Comments ().

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Troubleshooting PostgreSQL Low Free Memory

DZone

Let’s see some basic databases and operating systems mechanisms. In this blog post, we are going to understand how databases (and PostgreSQL specifically) manage memory and how to troubleshoot low free-memory scenarios. How Databases Read Data To understand how to deal with memory, we need to understand how things work.