Dec. 7, 2011
5:37 a.m.
driver allocating 512M !!?? what kind of driver it is? -Rajat On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:17 AM, mindentropy <mindentropy@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to allocate 512MB of RAM in my driver loaded as a module, but the OOM killer starts killing all my processes. This machine has around 24GB RAM and is a 8 core Xeon. The RAM is allocated in page size chunks (i.e. 131072 chunks each of size PAGE_SIZE). I am using a 32 bit kernel with PAE enabled. The allocation works fine on a machine with 8GB of RAM.
Thanks.
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