On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 03:07:08PM +0530, Heerappa Hunje wrote: > 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. I'd suggest the O'Reilly books on system administration for this kind of information. A general tour of the manpages (type "man man" to get started) sounds like something that might be good for you also. There's a lot of good material in them, and I refer to them routinely. BTW, the kernelnewbies mailing list is about C language programming in the kernel, and the linux-mm mailing list about virtual memory management programming in the kernel. Some of the questions you've posted are probably best dealt with elsewhere, e.g. on other mailing lists, as they haven't tended to be very related to kernel programming. Could someone give him a pointer to a mailing list or other support forum (newsgroup? anything) that would be of the right flavor? I've not done much in the way of system administration. If you're doing kernel programming after all, but are just having a tough time getting set up, you should probably still try going elsewhere for the bits about setting up your system properly. -- wli -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/