> > My program need to a 32M buffer, so I add "append="mem=96M"" to lilo.conf,
> > then the PC only know 96M mem, I can use the rest 32M. Following is a
> > simple example:
>
> No!!! You may stomp on regions reserved by the motherboard.
>
> Unless you must deal with stupid DMA hardware, just use malloc().
> There is a mlock() call if you need to avoid swapping.
>
> Next time you ask a question, specify what you really want to do
> without mentioning how you think you'd solve the problem. Maybe you
> should be using SysV shared memory or anonymous mmap.
This method above is taken from
http://www.isd.cme.nist.gov/projects/emc/shmem.html, and it said the
buffer size should not bigger than pagesize, but I map almost 31M in a
machine, that's no problem, and the memory near 32M whenI write a random
number, then read out it, they are different, and the read is always
65535. So I think I can use almost 31M, or absolutely 30M. How do you
think about this? (BTW, the pagesize in my machine is 4M)
Best.
Zhixu
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