Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x?

Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09T23:24:27Z

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, William J. Earl wrote:

> > not at the moment - but it's not really necessery because this is
> > ment for driver initialization time, which usually happens at boot
> > time.

> That is not the case for loadable (modular) drivers. Loading st
> as a module, for example, after boot time sometimes works and
> sometimes does not, especially if you set the maximum buffer size
> larger (to, say, 128K, as is needed on some drives for good space
> efficiency).

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.

-- mingo