Re: %u-order allocation failed

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:44:37 +0000


Hi!

> > The difference between memory and vmalloc space is this: you fill up the
> > whole memory with cache => memory fragments. You don't fill up the whole
> > vmalloc space with anything => vmalloc space doesn't fragment.
>
> vmalloc space fragments. You fragment address space rather than pages thats
> all. Same problem

vmalloc space tends to be empty while ram tends to be full. That might be
important.
Pavel

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