Re: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space error treating and VIDEO1394 IOC LISTEN CHANNEL ioctl failed problem

[Arjan van de Ven]

> > 
> I've used vmalloc in the past, and not had a problem, but it is a fair 
> question, how do you find out how much space is available? Other than a 
> binary vmalloc/release loop.

that's a really hard question since it's dynamic;
I suppose a good rule of thumb is "never expect more than 16Mb to work"
(when I said "64Mb" that was for the kernel as a whole, and there's
other users than just "you" :)

if you need that much you probably should redesign your algorithms to
not need vmalloc in the first place....


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