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Re: modload
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Wed Jul 22 14:26:45 1998
To: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: David K Krikorian <dkk@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Jul 1998 13:48:35 EDT."
<199807221748.NAA14350@x15-cruise-basselope.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 14:26:36 EDT
> well, I'm guessing that modload is telling the kernel to reserve enough
> memory for the module, and that memory isn't available due to what's
> being taken up by the filesystem...
Modload will actually complain if it can't reserve the
memory. I suspect that the ld command that modload runs is causing
problems when it fills up avaliable memory in /tmp. I'll see if
there's a good way to instrument this problem a bit more.
- Nathan
