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SubjectRe: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?
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Mario Holbe wrote:
> Jason Luo <abcd.bpmf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Now, I am writing a driver, which need 200M contiguous physical
>>memory? can do? how to do it?
>
>
> The ftape utils have a tool called swapout which tries to 'free'
> large chunks of memory which then can be allocated by the ftape
> module loaded subsequently.
> I don't know if this approach does also work with *such* large
> chunks like yours.

Wasn't there a problem with a process having mlocked memory in the wrong
place and the application hanging? Or the kernel hanging? Or something.
Can't remember.

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