On 12/15/05, Jeff Haran <jharan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I found a document named "Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory > Manager" quite helpful in this regard. Its a little dated at this point > since the description in it covers how this works in the 2.4 kernel, so > I don't know how applicable it is to 2.6, but the document is very well > written. > > See: > > http://www.skynet.ie/~mel/projects/vm/ > > There's also a print version available at Amazon, et. al. The latest version (almost more than 6-months back released) contains special part in the last of each chapter which explains the difference and additions found in 2.6.x series of kernel and (what I saw) its very much help in 2.6 series too ! -- Fawad Lateef - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html