Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 19:38:16 +0100 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: Memory problem with bttv driver |
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:56:54 +0000 (GMT) Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > > The bt848 drivers are working beautifully > > > for me in 2.4.18pre > > > > Well, I had a quick look at the code, and it seems that vmalloc is just > > failing, the source line is obvious./proc/meminfo before modprobe and xawtv:> > > > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: > > Mem: 1054728192 120070144 934658048 0 10420224 65257472 > > Swap: 1085652992 0 1085652992 > > > > Can this be highmem-related? > > That would make complete sense if so. The bttv uses vmalloc_32(), as the > card has 32bit limits, and I am not running bttv (nor I suspect are most > people) with highmem enabled
Ok, we re-checked without highmem: it's still the same problem. I try to find out what's so special about 2.4.10-SUSE...
Sorry for this dumb newbie question: is there an easy way (/proc?) to find out how much vmalloc space is used/left?
Regards, Stephan
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