On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > How much memory would it be reasonable for kmalloc() to be able > > to allocate to a module? > > 64K probably less. kmalloc allocates physically linear spaces. vmalloc will > happily grab you 2Mb of space but it will not be physically linear > Okay. Thanks. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.2.17 on an i686 machine (801.18 BogoMips). "Memory is like gasoline. You use it up when you are running. Of course you get it all back when you reboot..."; Actual explanation obtained from the Micro$oft help desk. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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