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Re: allocate huge amounts of kernel memory

Subject: Re: allocate huge amounts of kernel memory
From: Umesh Vaishampayan <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:38:37 -0800

On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 06:40 AM, Heiko Panther wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> my IOKit driver wants to allocate really a lot of buffers with
> IOMalloc(). At about 4 MB of alloc'd memory, further calls to
> IOMalloc() fail. Is there some kind of limit defined? How can I
> circumvent this problem?
>
> Thanks for pointers,
>
> Heiko Panther
>

Hope you realize that's 4MB of kernel *wired* memory....

--Umesh
--
Umesh Vaishampayan Apple Computer, Inc.
Mac OS X Kernel Ph: (408) 974 0229
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