Re: fork: out of memory

Jan Echternach (jec@DInet.de)
Fri, 28 Nov 1997 14:37:45 +0100

On 28 November 1997, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> This is silly. You can already guarantee your DMA allocations and waste
> less memory than that by compiling drivers in rather than as modules

Compiling a driver statically into the kernel is not always an option.
Maybe you're short on memory, or you want to fiddle with some compile-
time options or debug the driver without rebooting once in a minute.

Furthermore, I think the floppy disk driver allocates its DMA buffers
only when the device is opened.

PS: I did have problems with both the floppy disk driver and the SCSI
tape driver. The latter was when I tried to restore a backup after
repartitioning my drives. The advice that the driver should have been
compilied in is not very helpful in such a situation.

-- 
Jan Echternach


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