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 19:38:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020114193816.3fa131f8.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16QBLq-0002Mu-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <20020114184334.0a1712d4.skraw@ithnet.com> <E16QBLq-0002Mu-00@the-village.bc.nu>
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:56:54 +0000 (GMT)
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > Can this be highmem-related?
>
> That would make complete sense if so. The bttv uses vmalloc_32(), as the
> card has 32bit limits, and I am not running bttv (nor I suspect are most
> people) with highmem enabled
Ok, we re-checked without highmem: it's still the same problem. I try to find
out what's so special about 2.4.10-SUSE...
Sorry for this dumb newbie question: is there an easy way (/proc?) to find out
how much vmalloc space is used/left?
Regards,
Stephan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-14 18:38 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
2002-01-14 17:56 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 18:38 ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]
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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