Re: allocate huge amounts of kernel memory
Re: allocate huge amounts of kernel memory
- Subject: Re: allocate huge amounts of kernel memory
- From: Heiko Panther <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 16:54:25 +0100
Hi Umesh,
>> 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?
> Hope you realize that's 4MB of kernel *wired* memory....
Of course.
For my testing purposes, I can afford wasting some wired memory. Could
you tell me why it fails, and how I can get more of that precious wired
memory?
Thank you-
Heiko Panther
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