On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 09:41 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > > Linux starts allocating RAM from the top of memory, > while Windows starts allocating from the bottom. that was true in 2.4 but is not really true in 2.6 (except for the highmem zone obviously). Within a zone it's bottom to top nowadays (to get better IO DMA clustering) -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
