From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>
Cc: "William J. Earl" <wje@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x?
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:32:01 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199912092332.AAA27593@cave.bitwizard.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912100021250.10946-100000@chiara.csoma.elte.hu> from Ingo Molnar at "Dec 10, 1999 00:24:27 am"
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 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.
My ISDN drivers don't start up correctly after an fsck.
What I should do is:
hogmem 8 &
sleep 5
kill %1
before trying to start the ISDN drivers. (This is on a 16M machine).
Roger.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-12-09 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-09 1:03 Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x? Jeff Garzik
1999-12-09 2:28 ` Alan Cox
1999-12-09 2:45 ` Jeff Garzik
1999-12-09 5:22 ` Oliver Xymoron
1999-12-09 12:25 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 20:24 ` Jeff Garzik
1999-12-09 20:31 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-12-09 20:39 ` Rik van Riel
1999-12-09 20:54 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-12-09 23:21 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 22:27 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-12-09 23:16 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 23:09 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-12-10 0:44 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-10 0:18 ` William J. Earl
1999-12-11 19:56 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-12-10 12:21 ` Rik van Riel
1999-12-10 13:42 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-10 18:04 ` William J. Earl
1999-12-09 20:50 ` William J. Earl
1999-12-09 23:15 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 22:13 ` William J. Earl
1999-12-09 22:26 ` Alan Cox
1999-12-09 23:42 ` William J. Earl
1999-12-09 23:50 ` Alan Cox
1999-12-10 0:30 ` William J. Earl
1999-12-10 0:37 ` Alan Cox
1999-12-10 4:19 ` Oliver Xymoron
1999-12-10 10:14 ` Thomas Sailer
1999-12-09 23:24 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 22:33 ` Jeff Garzik
1999-12-09 23:32 ` Rogier Wolff [this message]
1999-12-09 23:44 ` JF Martinez
1999-12-10 0:52 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 23:46 ` Andi Kleen
1999-12-10 13:52 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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