Em Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:02:23AM +0800, machael thailer escreveu: > > > Em Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:39:18AM +0800, machael thailer escreveu: > > > > > I have a question to need you help. Our MIPS-based custom board has only > > > > > 8M memory.When I want to insmod a 24M module, it often panics and says > > > > > "out of memory...". > > > > > > > > a kernel module? 24MiB? ouch, if that is the case, the only way is to get > > > > more memory for your board, as kernel memory is not swappable... > > > > > > Yes, it is a kernel module. > > > But unfortunately, the memory is fixed on our board and we cannot add more memory. > > > Any other ideas? > > > > What does this module does that takes so much memory? One possible idea > > akpm talked about was to reduce NR_CPUS to the number of CPUs in your eval > > board if that is something relevant to the reason why your module takes so > > much memory, does it have a firmware linked? If so, don't link it and load > > it from userspace, block by block, if this is possible, etc, other than > > these suggestions one could only give more ideas if the source code is > > available for review. > > 24M is the size of the module, not the memory that it takes. what is the output of: size your_module.o ? - Arnaldo
