On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:59:57 +0800 "李一" <pank7yardbird@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > but, still I have a question, what if the kernel is usin' too much > memory, which ur RAM can't hold? Long before that point you will have pushed the applications out of RAM, making the system horribly slow. If the kernel really does use too much memory in a certain workload, the traditional Linux approach is to fix the kernel so it uses less. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ