Hi Marcos,
Hope followingh link helps ou out in understanding what is
memory bank:
http://en.mimi.hu/computing/memory_bank.html
And Mulyadi has explained in a correct way it seems the understandings for
the 3 ZONES divided.
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Marcos Roriz <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm reading Mel Gorman Understating the Linux Virtual Memory Manager and
> also TANENBAUM Modern Operating System I don't get some basic concepts of
> the Memory Management in Linux Kernel.
>
> The first question is, what is a memory bank, It's not clear if its a
> physical section of the memory of if its a chip (physical) itself.
>
> The ZONE_NORMAL zone refer only to kernel direct memory mapped, that means
> only to kernel pages and kernel programs (such as daemons)?
>
> Why is the ZONE_NORMAL so large (896 MB)? How to deal with low memory
> systems?
>
> The ZONE_HIGHMEM zone refer to kernel not mapped directly, so that includes
> userspace programs right?
>
> I googled and searched for all those answers but couldn't find a direct and
> consistent answer, thats why I'm asking for your guys help.
>
> Thanks very much for you time,
>
> Marcos Roriz
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with
> "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected]
> Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
>
>
--
Regards,
Anshul
