Re: fork: out of memory

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 28 Nov 1997 10:59:40 +0000 (GMT)

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> 256 kB ought to be enough, to be used only for DMA allocations
> larger than the page size. Large systems (over 64 MB) could have
> a full megabyte reserved for all DMA allocations.

This is silly. You can already guarantee your DMA allocations and waste
less memory than that by compiling drivers in rather than as modules

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