On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 07:01:03PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 05:51:39PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 06:40:16PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > > You mean I have to have more than 13+811 MB of RAM to use a CF card?
> > 
> > No, but it needs physically-contiguous memory (and you can't count the 811M
> > here, as it can only use already-free memory at this point). 
> 
> Ok.  It sounds quite.. unreliable to have the buffer cache "allocate" all
> free RAM and then things like umass fail.

It needs N contigous pages. In theory you can have Ram/N allocated and
have it still fail, if the memory fragmentation is at its maximum.
I think this can be worked around by bumping a kernel parameter,
but I don't remember which one :(

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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