Messages in this thread | | | From | Gerd Knorr <> | Subject | Re: Memory problem with bttv driver | Date | 15 Jan 2002 10:17:03 GMT |
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> >Making it bigger reduces that amount of ram directly mapped by the kernel > >which hits performance (nastily for 2.4 not so bad for 2.5) > > (Sorry for joning so late to the thread...) > It is wokring fine for me, under 2.4.18-pre3 + NVidia. The difference is > that I am using version 0.7.87 (see http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/2.4.18-pre3/) > I have just checked the bttv page (http://bytesex.org/bttv/) and there is > a newer version (0.7.88). What comes in .17 is 0.7.83. I have not > noticed anything relevant in changelog, but you can try...
MM wise it shouldn't make a difference whenever you are using 0.7.83 or 0.7.88 (I've mailed 0.7.88 patches to macelo for 2.4.18 btw). The 0.8.x versions have a complete different way to do the memory management.
Gerd
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