On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, sushil mayengbam wrote: > ZONE_DMA:first 16 MB(becoz of the ISA controller limitation) > ZONE_NORMAL:the kernel address space > ZONE_HIGH_MEM:the rest of the memory. These are physical memory zones. User memory is allocated in all three of these zones. Rik -- Engineers don't grow up, they grow sideways. http://www.surriel.com/ http://kernelnewbies.org/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/