driver allocating 512M !!?? what kind of driver it is? -Rajat On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:17 AM, mindentropy <mindentropy@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
