From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199912092332.AAA27593@cave.bitwizard.nl> Subject: Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x? In-Reply-To: from Ingo Molnar at "Dec 10, 1999 00:24:27 am" Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:32:01 +0100 (MET) From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: "William J. Earl" , Jeff Garzik , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel List , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. -- ** R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2137555 ** *-- BitWizard writes Linux device drivers for any device you may have! --* "I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you." -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/