From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261237AbVGTOXG (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:23:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261234AbVGTOXF (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:23:05 -0400 Received: from leyde.iplannetworks.net ([200.69.193.99]:51961 "EHLO proxy3.iplannetworks.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261237AbVGTOWC (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:22:02 -0400 Message-ID: <42DE5E7C.6060709@latinsourcetech.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 11:23:56 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1rcio_Oliveira?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arjanv@redhat.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Memory Management References: <42DE4D2B.9090503@latinsourcetech.com> <1121865874.3606.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1121865874.3606.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven wrote: >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) > > > Arjan, I'd like to know/understand more about memory management on Linux Kernel and I belive this concept is applyable to the Red Hat Linux Kernel. I have some doubts about the ZONE divison (DMA, NORMAL, HIGHMEM), Shared Memory utilization, HugeTLB feature and OOM with large memory and the kernel management of memory on SMP machines. I believe these features are common to the Linux kernel in general(Red Hat, Debian, SuSe, kernel.org), right? I read a tons of docs regarding symposiums, The Linux Memory Management Book and lots of docs about Oracle memory management but memory management still not clear to me. If somebody can help me... Thanks.