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

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:33:48 -0500

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.

Buffer cache is disposable memory, though...

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