Also called "supervisor mode," the kernel mode enables the OS (kernel) to execute "privileged instructions," which access the hardware directly. Applications run in the more restricted user mode.

Thankfully, there is now a free alternative for those only wanting to run Linux: User-Mode Linux (UML). User-Mode Linux (user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net) is not a complete virtual machine. It does not ...

perfmon says that 'Kernel Current URIs Cached = 2 (average) and that 'Output Cache Current Items' = 3000-4000 (average) I think that this means that almost all of the objects are in the User Mode ...

When running regular user programs, the processor is put into user mode, ring 3. When running kernel code, the processor is in ring 0, supervisor mode, also known as kernel mode.

Kernel Mode Linux (KML) is a technology that enables the execution of user processes in kernel mode. I described the basic concept and the implementation techniques of KML on IA-32 architecture in my ...

Internet Information Services 6.0 boasts a new kernel-mode caching capability that could greatly enhance the Web server's performance.

Even though IIS 6.0 constitutes Microsoft’s first go-around at kernel-mode caching, IDC's Kusnetzky expects that it will probably provide customers with performance benefits just the same. "The key to ...

To capture hypervisor pages or user-mode memory pages in a live kernel memory dump, you may use live kernel memory dump file options available under the Task Manager settings.

McObject has released eXtremeDB Kernel Mode (KM), a version of the company's in-memory embedded database system designed for deployment in the operating system kernel. Representative applications ...