Re: questions on swapping

["Heerappa Hunje" <hunjeh@celetron.com>]

Dear william,

Let me know how much of memory a system adminstrator can configure for
buffering mechanism out 128MB/256MB  or it will be choosen by the Linux
itself.

Thanks n Regards
Heerappa.



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  |       To:       Heerappa Hunje <hunjeh@celetron.com>                                                                         |
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:46:15PM +0530, Heerappa Hunje wrote:
> 1. I have problem in locating the source code of linux operating system
> because i dont know in which path it is kept. Pls suggest me the
pathname.

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/
             and
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/

for the less adventurous


On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:46:15PM +0530, Heerappa Hunje wrote:
> 2. let me know the different ways to connect the device drivers module to
> the kernel.

This is a bit too general to answer at all.


On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:46:15PM +0530, Heerappa Hunje wrote:
> 3. let me know where actually the space for SWAPPING, BUFFERS  are
> allocated. i mean whether they are in RAM Memory or Hard disk drive.

Buffers are in RAM, swap is on-disk.


-- wli





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