However, since device drivers do not need access to protected data, they can run just fine in User mode with little need to perform in Kernel mode. Read next: Interactive map of Linux Kernel.

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 ...

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 ...

Kernel-mode user processes are ordinary user processes except, of course, for their privilege level. Therefore, they basically can do whatever an ordinary user process can do. For example, a ...

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 operating system mode. Processors operate either in kernel mode or "user mode." Also called "supervisor mode," the kernel mode enables the OS (kernel) to execute "privileged instructions ...