Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:24:27 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x? |
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On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, William J. Earl wrote:
> > not at the moment - but it's not really necessery because this is > > ment for driver initialization time, which usually happens at boot > > time.
> That is not the case for loadable (modular) drivers. Loading st > as a module, for example, after boot time sometimes works and > sometimes does not, especially if you set the maximum buffer size > larger (to, say, 128K, as is needed on some drives for good space > efficiency).
yep, if eg. an fsck happened before modules are loaded then RAM is filled up with the buffer-cache. The best guarantee is to compile such drivers into the kernel.
-- mingo
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