Re: kmalloc() allocation.

[Mike Galbraith]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> 
> > How much memory would it be reasonable for kmalloc() to be able
> > to allocate to a module?
> 
> > There are 256 megabytes of SDRAM available. I don't think it's
> > reasonable that a 1/2 megabyte allocation would fail, especially
> > since it's the first module being installed.
> 
> If you write the defragmentation code for the VM, I'll
> be happy to bump up the limit a bit ...

Hmm.. Bill Hawes wrote a memory defragger a long time ago.  I have a
copy of it lying around if you want to take a look at it.

        -Mike

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