From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261744AbVGULox (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:44:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261752AbVGULox (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:44:53 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:19911 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261744AbVGULox (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:44:53 -0400 Subject: Re: Memory Management From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1rcio?= Oliveira Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <42DE5E7C.6060709@latinsourcetech.com> References: <42DE4D2B.9090503@latinsourcetech.com> <1121865874.3606.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42DE5E7C.6060709@latinsourcetech.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-CBP0oQ2QszuB6OPwykRJ" Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:37:38 -0400 Message-Id: <1121870258.3606.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-CBP0oQ2QszuB6OPwykRJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 11:23 -0300, M=C3=A1rcio Oliveira wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: >=20 > >I'm sure RH support will be able to help you with that; I doubt many > >other people care about an ancient kernel like that, and a vendor one to > >boot. > > > >(Also I assume you are using the -hugemem kernel as the documentation > >recommends you to do) > > > > =20 > > > Arjan, >=20 > I'd like to know/understand more about memory management on Linux=20 > Kernel and I belive this concept is applyable to the Red Hat Linux Kernel= . Only on the highest of levels. The RHEL3 kernel has a VM that resembles almost no other linux kernel in many many ways.=20 > I have some doubts about the ZONE divison (DMA, NORMAL, HIGHMEM),=20 > Shared Memory utilization, HugeTLB feature and OOM with large memory and=20 > the kernel management of memory on SMP machines. I believe these=20 > features are common to the Linux kernel in general(Red Hat, Debian,=20 > SuSe, kernel.org), right? nope. These things are very much different between the kernels you mention. What do you want to use the knowledge for? Fixing the VM? Tuning your server? The goal of your question determines what kind of answer you want to your questions.... --=-CBP0oQ2QszuB6OPwykRJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBC3mGypv2rCoFn+CIRAi0oAJ9BRhKTlD4BvRSZ8Dr2Rd/X21WFTgCeKtlu oYxngUvop3YZTNWNZPyzy/g= =QvVi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-CBP0oQ2QszuB6OPwykRJ--