The NVIDIA CUDA Linux Release Notes (currently here: http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compu…_1.1_linux.txt) quote:
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"On some Linux releases, due to a GRUB bug in the handling of upper
memory and a default vmalloc too small on 32-bit systems, it may be
necessary to pass this information to the bootloader:
vmalloc=256MB, uppermem=524288"
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Can someone please advise when these settings are required? Ie. what would the defect be, what wouldn’t be working, what is fixed by this setting?
[I am having some driver / machine crashes and I wish to know if this setting might be worth trying.]
thanks - David.