Folks, See notes inline ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Anthony L. Awtrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Michael Jang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 7:39 AM Subject: Level 1: Issue 2: Memory (fwd)
> > Another thread revisited from a few months ago. Do any of you have > thoughts on covering memory topics at Level 1? Would including some > essential memory issues be relevant to the hardware (1.101) objectives or > Administration (1.111) tasks? > > -Kara > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 21:29:42 +0200 (CEST) > From: Tom Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Issue 2: Memory > > [This is one of the issues discussed for updating Level 1 in the > lpi-updates list; cross-posted to lpi-examdev because of delineation with > L2] > > The subject of "memory" is hardly addressed neither in the L1 nor L2 test > objectives. What should we introduce in L1, and where? Some possible > topics: > > - kernel boot option when kernel doesn't recognise all physical memory I assume this is the "linux mem=128MB" type of command at the boot prompt (or in lilo.conf). I thought this issue became obsolete with kernel 2.2. (unless you need more than 1GB, which I think was addressed with kernel 2.4). > > - physical memory limits with Linux on IBM-PC-compatible Intel-based > systems With the 64GB limit in kernel 2.4, is this really an issue at this point? Or should this address the established 4GB limits for 32 bit CPUs? > > - limits to address space in Linux I think this is a similar issue to physical memory limits - or am I missing something? > > - use of `free` command > > - use of `vmstat` command (recommended from JAS-2) These are both good tools to help troubleshoot memory problems (though I think `top` covers what you see from `free`). > > -- > Tom Peters > Director of the Board & Exam Development Specialist, > Linux Professional Institute > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > This message was sent from the lpi-examdev mailing list. > Send `unsubscribe lpi-examdev' in the subject to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > to leave the list. -- This message was sent from the lpi-examdev mailing list. Send `unsubscribe lpi-examdev' in the subject to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to leave the list.
