From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Memory problem with bttv driver
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:43:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020114184334.0a1712d4.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16QB5s-0002J9-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <20020114181210.67650995.skraw@ithnet.com> <E16QB5s-0002J9-00@the-village.bc.nu>
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:40:24 +0000 (GMT)
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > yesterday we came across another MM related problem. This time its related
to> > the bttv-driver. We do very simple things:
>
> Do you trust your kernel build ?
Yes.
> The bt848 drivers are working beautifully
> for me in 2.4.18pre
Well, I had a quick look at the code, and it seems that vmalloc is just
failing, the source line is obvious./proc/meminfo before modprobe and xawtv:
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 1054728192 120070144 934658048 0 10420224 65257472
Swap: 1085652992 0 1085652992
MemTotal: 1030008 kB
MemFree: 912752 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 10176 kB
Cached: 63728 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 26056 kB
Inactive: 73692 kB
HighTotal: 131056 kB
HighFree: 36720 kB
LowTotal: 898952 kB
LowFree: 876032 kB
SwapTotal: 1060208 kB
SwapFree: 1060208 kB
And afterwards:
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 1054728192 120537088 934191104 0 10612736 65273856
Swap: 1085652992 0 1085652992
MemTotal: 1030008 kB
MemFree: 912296 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 10364 kB
Cached: 63744 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 26140 kB
Inactive: 73812 kB
HighTotal: 131056 kB
HighFree: 36608 kB
LowTotal: 898952 kB
LowFree: 875688 kB
SwapTotal: 1060208 kB
SwapFree: 1060208 kB
Can this be highmem-related?
Regards,
Stephan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-14 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-14 17:12 Memory problem with bttv driver Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-14 17:40 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 17:43 ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]
2002-01-14 17:56 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 18:38 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-14 19:48 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-14 20:03 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 20:00 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-14 21:17 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 23:42 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-01-15 10:17 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-01-15 11:14 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-15 13:20 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-01-15 13:46 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-15 15:16 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-01-15 16:35 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-16 9:57 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-01-16 17:24 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
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2002-01-15 1:55 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
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