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

To: mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu
Subject: Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x?
From: JF Martinez <jfm2@club-internet.fr>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:44:58 +0100
CC: wje@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com, R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl.jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
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> 
> 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.
> 

Modules are crucial.  The best gurantee is fix the problem and keep the
drivers where they must be: in modules not in the main kernel.

-- 
			Jean Francois Martinez

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