Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 05:14:02PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 04:22:00PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
>>
>>>umass0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0
>>>umass0: Genesys Logic USB Storage Device, rev 1.10/1.13, addr 2
>>>umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
>>>umass0: no buffer memory
>>
>>Know problem, there isn't enouth free contigous memory.
>>It shoud work after a fresh boot, or releasing some ram (in my case,
>>exiting mozilla is enouth).
>>Maybe a program doing a large malloc(), touching every page and exiting
>>would be enouth. But I never tried this trick.
> 
> 
> Errr.  This machine has 1024 MB of RAM.  This is what top says:
> 
> Memory: 545M Act, 278M Inact, 528K Wired, 4692K Exec, 811M File, 13M Free
> 
> You mean I have to have more than 13+811 MB of RAM to use a CF card?
> Or reboot every time I want to read a CF card?  You can't be serious ;-)
> This used to work on machines with 64 MB of RAM, and not just after a
> reboot.  Must be a serious bug somewhere.

At some point something happened to the VM system that made it
difficult to get free contig memory except at boot time.  I'm
not sure when it happened, but it's very annoying.

	-- Lennart