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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 20:48:18 +0100
From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Memory problem with bttv driver
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:56:54 +0000 (GMT)
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> > Can this be highmem-related?
> 
> That would make complete sense if so. The bttv uses vmalloc_32(), as the
> card has 32bit limits, and I am not running bttv (nor I suspect are most
> people) with highmem enabled

Ok. I tracked it down. It is definitely VMALLOC-stuff. I increased the
VMALLOC_RESERVE from 128 to 256 MB and now it _works_. Here is a list of loaded
modules, maybe one (or several) of those are known to be vmalloc-fans :-)


Module                  Size  Used by
tuner                   8048   1  (autoclean)
bttv                   60848   0 
i2c-algo-bit            7040   1  [bttv]
i2c-core               12224   0  [tuner bttv i2c-algo-bit]
videodev                4768   2  [bttv]
NVdriver              720128  14  (autoclean)
parport_pc             12432   1  (autoclean)
lp                      5984   0  (autoclean)
parport                12736   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
nfs                    73024   2  (autoclean)
lockd                  47056   1  (autoclean) [nfs]
sunrpc                 62496   1  (autoclean) [nfs lockd]
ipv6                  158464  -1  (autoclean)
uhci                   24896   0  (unused)
usbcore                48640   1  [uhci]
3c59x                  25312   1  (autoclean)
emu10k1                58080   0 
sound                  54064   0  [emu10k1]
ac97_codec              9504   0  [emu10k1]
hisax                 168112   4 
isdn                  115088   6  [hisax]
slhc                    4304   0  [isdn]
serial                 44128   0  (autoclean)


How can I find out?

Regards,
Stephan

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