On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 17:24 -0500, Robert Becker Cope wrote: > This is a good read for anyone interested in the memory handling of RHEL4: > > http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/rhel4_vm.pdf That's a good one. This book is nice as a general overview of the 2.6 kernel VM: Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager, Mel Gorman Which is freely available from: http://www.phptr.com/content/images/0131453483/downloads/gorman_book.pdf#search=%22understanding%20the%20linux%20virtual%22 Good background theory can be found in: The Design of the UNIX operating system The Design and implementation of the 4.4BSD operating system -- Daniel