Ouch. This means that this problem will always appear eventually, and the only way to clear it is waiting for Linux to free a large amount of cache memory. <flamebait>Or I could reboot my machine.</flamebait>
In the meantime, I have no PCM playback via my SB-Live!. Is this a 2.4 or a SB-Live limitation? Chris --- Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > At Sun, 27 Oct 2002 18:05:41 +0000 (GMT), > Chris Rankin wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > The 'cannot allocate memory' problem has returned > on > > my machine: > > > (snip) > > > > $ free -t > > total used free > shared > > buffers cached > > Mem: 1033544 1020348 13196 > 0 > > 30228 748684 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 241436 792108 > > Swap: 498004 10668 487336 > > Total: 1531548 1031016 500532 > > > > > > $ vmstat > > procs memory swap > > > io system cpu > > r b w swpd free buff cache si so > bi > > bo in cs us sy id > > 2 0 0 10668 13096 30284 748728 0 0 > 1 > > 3 10 14 97 3 0 > > > > > > I am using the snd-emu10k1 driver with a SB-Live! > > card, on a 2.4.19-SMP box with 1 GB memory, so > this > > out-of-memory error is a bit of a mystery. Are > there > > any other statistics that would be useful? I > expect > > (hope!) that this error will disappear soon, so > I'd > > recommend a swift response, if required. > > i guess actually your box has no free space "for the > sb live card". > the emu10k1 chip requires the 29bit PCI DMA mask, > and it cannot use > the whole 1GB memory. hence, even if you have > memory on the high-mem > region, still this problem may happen. > > please note that the current emu10k1 driver > allocates pages > dynamically at each pcm playback, while the older > version grabbed the > large contiguous area at the module loading time. > this makes the > difference of behavior as you found before. > > this problem could be solved by using > get_free_page() with GFP_KERNEL > (without ATOMIC) like on 2.2 kernels, since > pci_alloc_consistent() > uses always GFP_ATOMIC flag so that it can be called > from interrupt > handlers. but it would be really a hack... > > > Takashi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
