On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:13:41AM -0400, Graeme Wilford wrote:
> I'm sure this will significantly reduce the number of problems that
> 0.3-newbies experience.
Both dynamic and static allocation work for me without fail, so it
doesn't effect me.
I'm not sure this will reduce the number of problems so much as bring
back a different set of people with allocation related problems.
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Tyler Trafford
It seems it doesn't really matter what the default is. Perhaps the option itself should be publicized such that "0.3-newbies" will learn of the (possibly huge) effects the option has.
Personally, on my FC3 P3-600 with 384mb ram, ivtv_dynbuf=1 results in a hard freeze averaging about once a day (with the failed allocation panics if I keep logs of such things). Changing to ivtv_dynbuf=0 (and changing nothing else) brings about absolute stability (I haven't had a single hard freeze, been running for about 5 weeks).
But like I said, I don't have an opinion on a default, because it just seems that either dynamic or static will end up causing problems on a fair number of machines out there.
Just my 2 cents.
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Mike
