From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:24:27 +0100 (CET) From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x? In-Reply-To: <14416.10643.915336.498552@liveoak.engr.sgi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "William J. Earl" Cc: Jeff Garzik , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel List , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- 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/