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Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x?

To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>
Subject: Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x?
From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:32:01 +0100 (MET)
CC: "William J. Earl" <wje@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>, linux-mm@kvack.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912100021250.10946-100000@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>from Ingo Molnar at "Dec 10, 1999 00:24:27 am"
Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> yep, if eg. an fsck happened before modules are loaded then RAM is filled
> up with the buffer-cache. The best guarantee is to compile such drivers
> into the kernel.

My ISDN drivers don't start up correctly after an fsck. 

What I should do is:

hogmem 8 &
sleep 5
kill %1

before trying to start the ISDN drivers. (This is on a 16M machine). 

				Roger.

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