>Hello !!!
>On Mon, 25 May 1998, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
>> >It is not a matter of CPU burn. It is a matter of the design of the ISA
>> >bus. Apparently you have an ISA sound card that uses DMA >>>channels.
The
>> >problem is that ISA DMA channels can only access the bottom 1M of
memory,
>>>
>>> I don't agree on this. ISA DMA transfers are NOT limited to the 1 >>>MB
border.
>>>
>>> Some older DMA controllers can only transfer below 16 MB, the rest can
>>> transfer above 16 MB. The only exception is the ISA bus, which has a
limit
>>> of 16 MB.
>>>
>>>
>So the question that we have to ask our selfs is "Could be this fixed
>without rebooting???"
Well, depends on what is using the memory. Shut down the process, and the
memory will be freed. Also bfush all your buffers.
Best is to use a module, and let the module "reserve" some amount of memory.
>Bye.
Igmar
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