On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 12:36:43AM +0530, mindentropy wrote: > On Thursday 08 Dec 2011 1:38:19 AM Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 01:47, 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). > > > > mind to tell us, how do you allocate memory? kmalloc? > Via kmalloc. Please use the functions written to give you large memory chunks. As you are using a video-for-linux device, why not use the apis that this framework provides you for this type of thing? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
