Re: Problem: Out of memory after 2days with 2GB RAM

[Tomas Winkler]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/12/2008 05:43 PM, Tomas Winkler wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Johannes Berg
>> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> This cuts the allocation to 10%, or (under) a page in all cases.
>>
>> Probably. it would be safe to use vmalloc for allocating txb anyway.
>> I'll give it a try.
>
> Why it wouldn't be "safe". I suggested it to you already, since allocating
> 64k by kmalloc for descriptors accessed only in kernel is crud. Moreover
> you're mixing the buffer with its descriptors here? Or what you're
> considering to vmalloc?
>
Not that. I just wasn't sure when I dropped the line  I'm not doing it
under some spinlock or something like that.
Tomas
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