Re: Final pre-2.0.31.. Expect this to be same as real 2.0.31
Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Tue, 16 Sep 1997 14:17:36 +0200 (MET DST)
Mark Habersack wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > > SVGATextMode sets high-res mode (100x32) and right before the login prompt
> > > appears, theres "cannot get a free page". It was hapenning even with 80megs
> > > swap. Nothing like this happens on my "normal" machine (with 32megs of RAM
> > > and 32meg swap). I'm about to try the new patches from Dr.Werner Fink today
> > > and I'll see whether that helps or not.
> >
> > Could not get a free page is ok, does not depend on swap space free
> > and does not mean anything bad.
> Well, imho it is bad. It means something in the allocation mechanism fails,
> and if it happens in some critical routine, the kernel is cooked.
If you get the message while svgatextmode is going towards a higher
resolution mode, then the kernel is allocating memory for the
offscreen video buffers. In that case, you have to have enough memory
available. Because this operation requires quite a lot of extra memory
at exactly one moment in time, there is not much we can do about
it....
Roger.
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