Messages in this thread | | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory? | Date | Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:39:42 -0500 |
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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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