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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:39:42 -0500
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Mario Holbe wrote:
> Jason Luo <abcd.bpmf@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Now, I am writing a driver, which need 200M contiguous physical
>>memory? can do? how to do it?
> 
> 
> The ftape utils have a tool called swapout which tries to 'free'
> large chunks of memory which then can be allocated by the ftape
> module loaded subsequently.
> I don't know if this approach does also work with *such* large
> chunks like yours.

Wasn't there a problem with a process having mlocked memory in the wrong 
place and the application hanging? Or the kernel hanging? Or something. 
Can't remember.

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