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

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:32:01 +0100 (MET)

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.

My ISDN drivers don't start up correctly after an fsck.

What I should do is:

hogmem 8 &
sleep 5
kill %1

before trying to start the ISDN drivers. (This is on a 16M machine).

Roger.

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