Hi :) On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 09:44, ashish anand <ashishanand26cs@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi on wed 7th sep Christopher Harvey wrote
It means that it can't be swapped to your swap partition, even if you're not using it.
this thing I understood it pretty well but what about the line "Therefore, every byte of memory you consume is one less byte of available physical memory".What is the meaning of this line and why it is so.
could you please next time cut out the unrelated message? :) Anyway, that passage means that the bigger your kernel image is, the lesser your free memory are. This is simply because your kernel image is entirely loaded and locked in RAM. -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com