Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:37:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:36:47 -0500 Received: from jalon.able.es ([212.97.163.2]:59811 "EHLO jalon.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:36:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 00:42:05 +0100 From: "J.A. Magallon" To: Alan Cox Cc: Stephan von Krawczynski , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Memory problem with bttv driver Message-ID: <20020115004205.A12407@werewolf.able.es> In-Reply-To: <20020114210039.180c0438.skraw@ithnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on lun, ene 14, 2002 at 22:17:31 +0100 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.3.0 Lines: 48 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 20020114 Alan Cox wrote: >> Ok. So what do we do about it? I mean there are possibly some more people out >> there with such a problem, or - to my prediction - there will be more in the >> future. I see to possibilities: >> 1) simply increase it overall. I have not the slightest idea what the drawbacks >> are. 2) make it configurable (looks like general setup to me). > >Making it bigger reduces that amount of ram directly mapped by the kernel >which hits performance (nastily for 2.4 not so bad for 2.5) (Sorry for joning so late to the thread...) It is wokring fine for me, under 2.4.18-pre3 + NVidia. The difference is that I am using version 0.7.87 (see http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/2.4.18-pre3/) I have just checked the bttv page (http://bytesex.org/bttv/) and there is a newer version (0.7.88). What comes in .17 is 0.7.83. I have not noticed anything relevant in changelog, but you can try... lsmod: werewolf:~# lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: P tuner 8548 1 (autoclean) tvaudio 9312 0 (autoclean) (unused) msp3400 14768 1 (autoclean) bttv 63424 0 (autoclean) i2c-algo-bit 7244 1 (autoclean) [bttv] videodev 4960 3 (autoclean) [bttv] emu10k1 57728 1 sound 55052 0 [emu10k1] ac97_codec 9472 0 [emu10k1] soundcore 3524 7 [emu10k1 sound] serial 45792 7 isa-pnp 28968 0 [serial] w83781d 17792 0 (unused) i2c-proc 6112 0 [w83781d] i2c-isa 1188 0 (unused) i2c-piix4 3908 0 (unused) i2c-core 13408 0 [tuner tvaudio msp3400 bttv i2c-algo-bit w83781d i2c-proc i2c-isa i2c-piix4] NVdriver 821600 14 agpgart 17024 3 ne2k-pci 4960 1 8390 6608 0 [ne2k-pci] -- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:jamagallon@able.es Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.18-pre3-beo #5 SMP Sun Jan 13 02:14:04 CET 2002 i686 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/