Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262612AbTHZFuB (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 01:50:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262634AbTHZFuA (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 01:50:00 -0400 Received: from ivoti.terra.com.br ([200.176.3.20]:27029 "EHLO ivoti.terra.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262612AbTHZFt7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 01:49:59 -0400 From: Lucas Correia Villa Real To: Theewara Vorakosit , Subject: Re: Ramdisk memory usage Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 02:50:01 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308260250.01499.lucasvr@gobolinux.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 601 Lines: 17 On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:26, Theewara Vorakosit wrote: > Dear All, > I use redhat linux 9 with kernel 2.4.20-20.9. Linux supports 16 > ramdisks with size of 4MB. So, all memory needed are 64MB. I want to know > that memory space for ram disk is allocated at boot time or when I really > use it? > Thanks, > Theewara It's dynamically allocated. Lucas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/