hi, you can check this link for memory management in 2.4 kernel. the VM in 2.6 is much similar to these basic concepts. http://www.skynet.ie/~mel/projects/vm/guide/html/understand/
Mithlesh On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 17:03, Vishal Rao wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:25:36 +0530, Mandar BANDEKAR > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anybody know how paging takes place in GNU/Linux. I know that demand > > paging happens but how exactly does that take place > > Hi, > > Just to add to your question my own questions, to which kernel version > and architecture are you refering? And where did you read that "demand > paging happens" ? I dont know if the "OOM" (out-of-memory) killer > affects paging in some way... If anyone has any links about linux > memory management in current kernels (other than reading LKML) please > post... > > Cheers, > Vishal > -- > ______________________________________________________________________ > Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail > Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions. > -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
