Hi,
Ricardo Lugo:
> I stumbled upon someone saying that setting
> vm.min_free_kbytes to 16MB helped out. I tried it, and sure enough it
> worked.
>
Lucky you.
> Whether or not it will fix your problem, I can't say for 100%
> certain. But it is worth a try since these "unable to handle kernel
> paging request" errors plague the ivtv driver in other areas, and can
> be fixed with this sysctl setting.
>
"Fixed", no. "Worked around and will probably not crash", apparently, as
the driver seems to not check the result of a memory allocation someplace.
There's a code audit for a bored programmer in there somewhere. :-/
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