Re: Query regarding kernel memory

2011-07-25 Thread Dave Hylands
Hi Vaibhav, On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Vaibhav Jain wrote: > Hi Dave, Santhosh, > > Thanks for the reply! I was talking about the following paragraph from the > reference you provided : > > The kernel (on the x86 architecture, in the default configuration) splits > the 4-GB virtual address

Re: Query regarding kernel memory

2011-07-25 Thread Vaibhav Jain
Hi Dave, Santhosh, Thanks for the reply! I was talking about the following paragraph from the reference you provided : The kernel (on the x86 architecture, in the default configuration) splits the 4-GB virtual address space between user-space and the kernel; the same set of mappings is used in bo

Re: Query regarding kernel memory

2011-07-25 Thread santhosh kumars
hi, On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Vaibhav Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I read a few articles on linux virtual memory management such as this one : > http://lwn.net/Articles/75174/ > > which say that earlier linux kernel could only use memory slightly below 1 > GB. They have In Linux to separate the u

Re: Query regarding kernel memory

2011-07-25 Thread Dave Hylands
Hi Vaibhav, On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Vaibhav Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I read a few articles on linux virtual memory management such as this one : > http://lwn.net/Articles/75174/ > > which say that earlier linux kernel could only use memory slightly below 1 > GB. They have > given the reason

Query regarding kernel memory

2011-07-25 Thread Vaibhav Jain
Hi, I read a few articles on linux virtual memory management such as this one : http://lwn.net/Articles/75174/ which say that earlier linux kernel could only use memory slightly below 1 GB. They have given the reason for it but I am unable to understand.They further describe the use of High memor