Dear william, Let me know how much of memory a system adminstrator can configure for buffering mechanism out 128MB/256MB or it will be choosen by the Linux itself. Thanks n Regards Heerappa. |---------+----------------------------> | | William Lee Irwin| | | III | | | <wli@holomorphy.c| | | om> | | | | | | 04/28/2003 12:56 | | | PM | | | | |---------+----------------------------> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: Heerappa Hunje <hunjeh@celetron.com> | | cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org | | Subject: Re: questions on swapping | >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:46:15PM +0530, Heerappa Hunje wrote: > 1. I have problem in locating the source code of linux operating system > because i dont know in which path it is kept. Pls suggest me the pathname. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/ and ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ for the less adventurous On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:46:15PM +0530, Heerappa Hunje wrote: > 2. let me know the different ways to connect the device drivers module to > the kernel. This is a bit too general to answer at all. On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:46:15PM +0530, Heerappa Hunje wrote: > 3. let me know where actually the space for SWAPPING, BUFFERS are > allocated. i mean whether they are in RAM Memory or Hard disk drive. Buffers are in RAM, swap is on-disk. -- wli -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
