The Ftape Installation and Usage Guide - conf.modules
swapout
In case you have problems with loading the ftape-internal.o
module then memory fragmentation problems might (but need not ...) be
the cause.
In this case, try adding
pre-install ftape-internal /usr/local/bin/swapout MEGS
to your `/etc/conf.modules
' file. MEGS specifies the number
of megabytes (1024 times 1024 bytes) swapout
tries to allocate.
This tells the modprobe
program to run `/sbin/swapout MEGS
' automatically before trying to load
ftape-internal.o
. swapout
is only available on your system
if you installed the ftape-tools
package. Also
`/usr/local/bin/
' only reflects the default installation path of
swapout
and may be different on your system. See Optional utilities.
The hack might be necessary to decrease memory fragmentation of your
computer system because ftape-internal.o
needs at least 4
contiguous dma buffers of size 32kb. You may need to increase the amount
of memory swapout
allocates (the MEGS argument). My
computer system has 20 Megs of RAM (and lots of swap space) and I go
with `swapout 15
'. There is more information in a separate
section. See Swapout.
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