Hi :) On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 09:44, ashish anand <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > on wed 7th sep Christopher Harvey wrote >>>It means that it can't be swapped to your swap partition, even if >>>you're not using it. > > this thing I understood it pretty well but what about the line > "Therefore, every byte of > memory you consume is one less byte of available physical memory".What is > the meaning of this line and why it is so.
could you please next time cut out the unrelated message? :) Anyway, that passage means that the bigger your kernel image is, the lesser your free memory are. This is simply because your kernel image is entirely loaded and locked in RAM. -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
