driver allocating 512M !!?? what kind of driver it is?

-Rajat

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:17 AM, mindentropy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I am trying to allocate 512MB of RAM in my driver loaded as a module, but
> the OOM killer starts killing all my processes. This machine has around 24GB
> RAM and is a 8 core Xeon. The RAM is allocated in page size chunks (i.e.
> 131072 chunks each of size PAGE_SIZE). I am using a 32 bit kernel with PAE
> enabled. The allocation works fine on a machine with 8GB of RAM.
>
> Thanks.
>
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