Re: Page Allocation Failure, Why?? Bug in kernel??

[Jesper Juhl]

On 02/06/06, Abu M. Muttalib <abum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> That's precisely I want to say. The PAGES are available but they are not
> allocated to process. Why??
There may be 32 pages available in total, but not 32 contiguous ones -
that's a *lot* of contiguous pages to ask for in kernel space - 128KB
(assuming a 4096 byte page size).

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