Andi Kleen wrote:
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 08:53:17AM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
Andi Kleen wrote:
Yep - on x86-64. But the machine had 8GB of RAM, so if even that
runs out of memory something is wrong imho. How large allocations
would it need?
-Andi
28 bytes per extent so in this case rather a lot. This could be
Assuming it created 300k extents that would be only ~8MB. That should
be no problem for a 8GB machine.
-Andi
Well, since it wants it as a single chunk of kernel memory..... that
gets hard to do in linux. Actually it probably has one large chunk and
is doing a realloc to get a larger chunk.
Steve
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