Hi Eduardo... Good questions... On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Eduardo Júnior <ihtraum18@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I read that the lists LRU (active and inactive) store working set of the > processes that are running. not only process owned pages, but kernel allocated ones such as buffer, socket buffer and so on AFAIK. > I read that also on the active list is two-thirds of the inactive list. Hmmm? never measure it...but that's possible...even more I guess... depending on current real memory pressure.. > My source has not informed as the size of the inactive list was defined, if > at compile time or runtime. not defined AFAIK. it's entirely a dynamic data structure. > So, I wonder: > > - The size of the inactive list is defined that way? nope, dynamic.. > - The definition of the size of the inactive list has some dependence on > architecture? nope... > - The lists are initialized in the boot? AFAIK yes >Only pages of the image and > structures of pages of the kernel are these lists? What kinds of pages they > store? any kind of allocated pages..by allocated i mean the one which is allocated via kmalloc() and friends and not locked into RAM and must exist in the entire life of the kernel. > Any reference to respect would be welcome. Sorry, none that I have. maybe mel gorman's PDF. regards, Mulyadi. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
