On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:13:30AM -0700, Jun Sun wrote: > BTW, I have been under the impression that demand for larger system RAM > mainly comes from large router/switches to store routing table. Does > anybody know on such systems whether the routing code runs in kernel or > user space and whether it requires all the memory space accessible at > the same time or can live with dynamically managed memory space? Kernel routing is more for the lower end systems; the highend systems use hardware assisted routing / switching where software only handles the boundary cases; such software might either live in user or in kernel space. Ralf
