Re: DMA memory (2.0.30)
Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:28:00 +0100
> > it wasn't able to allocate enough DMA memory. The kernel just wouldn't
> > let me write to /dev/fd0. I rebooted and things worked fine; I wasn't able
> > to replicate the problem.
> Known mm weakness, hard to solve. Try to run big app and then kill
> it. It *may* help.
The rather trivial "swapout" program from ftape does this, and in my
case, it mostly really works. (It just malloc()s 10 MB, writes into
each page, exits.)
olaf
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