From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: "machael thailer" <dony.he@huawei.com>
Cc: <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: limited Memory question...
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 01:05:30 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020109030530.GE23506@conectiva.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001b01c198ba$0fc82b00$9b6e0b0a@huawei.com>
Em Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:02:23AM +0800, machael thailer escreveu:
>
> > Em Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:39:18AM +0800, machael thailer escreveu:
> > > > > I have a question to need you help. Our MIPS-based custom board has only
> > > > > 8M memory.When I want to insmod a 24M module, it often panics and says
> > > > > "out of memory...".
> > > >
> > > > a kernel module? 24MiB? ouch, if that is the case, the only way is to get
> > > > more memory for your board, as kernel memory is not swappable...
> > >
> > > Yes, it is a kernel module.
> > > But unfortunately, the memory is fixed on our board and we cannot add more memory.
> > > Any other ideas?
> >
> > What does this module does that takes so much memory? One possible idea
> > akpm talked about was to reduce NR_CPUS to the number of CPUs in your eval
> > board if that is something relevant to the reason why your module takes so
> > much memory, does it have a firmware linked? If so, don't link it and load
> > it from userspace, block by block, if this is possible, etc, other than
> > these suggestions one could only give more ideas if the source code is
> > available for review.
>
> 24M is the size of the module, not the memory that it takes.
what is the output of:
size your_module.o
?
- Arnaldo
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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: machael thailer <dony.he@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: limited Memory question...
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 01:05:30 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020109030530.GE23506@conectiva.com.br> (raw)
Message-ID: <20020109030530.6X1c2Wwp031_zlKL_EGiZ05KK4hHcjTtG5FPyfN_kWs@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001b01c198ba$0fc82b00$9b6e0b0a@huawei.com>
Em Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:02:23AM +0800, machael thailer escreveu:
>
> > Em Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:39:18AM +0800, machael thailer escreveu:
> > > > > I have a question to need you help. Our MIPS-based custom board has only
> > > > > 8M memory.When I want to insmod a 24M module, it often panics and says
> > > > > "out of memory...".
> > > >
> > > > a kernel module? 24MiB? ouch, if that is the case, the only way is to get
> > > > more memory for your board, as kernel memory is not swappable...
> > >
> > > Yes, it is a kernel module.
> > > But unfortunately, the memory is fixed on our board and we cannot add more memory.
> > > Any other ideas?
> >
> > What does this module does that takes so much memory? One possible idea
> > akpm talked about was to reduce NR_CPUS to the number of CPUs in your eval
> > board if that is something relevant to the reason why your module takes so
> > much memory, does it have a firmware linked? If so, don't link it and load
> > it from userspace, block by block, if this is possible, etc, other than
> > these suggestions one could only give more ideas if the source code is
> > available for review.
>
> 24M is the size of the module, not the memory that it takes.
what is the output of:
size your_module.o
?
- Arnaldo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-09 4:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-09 1:43 limited Memory question machael thailer
2002-01-09 1:43 ` machael thailer
2002-01-09 1:51 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-01-09 1:51 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-01-09 2:39 ` machael thailer
2002-01-09 2:39 ` machael thailer
2002-01-09 2:44 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-01-09 2:44 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-01-09 3:02 ` machael thailer
2002-01-09 3:02 ` machael thailer
2002-01-09 3:05 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2002-01-09 3:05 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-01-09 3:13 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-09 3:13 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-09 3:13 ` machael thailer
2002-01-09 3:13 ` machael thailer
2002-01-09 11:35 ` Ralf Baechle
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