At Wed, 05 Feb 2003 02:15:27 -0500, Brian J. Tarricone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > forgive me for cross-posting, but i've found references to this problem > on both lists, so... this should go to alsa-devel, not alsa-users...
> > so then i noticed rc7, and tried that (unpatched, fresh from the website). > > things are somewhat worse. i load up xmms, and start playing mp3s. > things seem fine, playing for hours until i get bored of some songs, put > it on random play, and keep hitting "next song" until i find something i > feel like listening to. if i press 'next' roughly once per second, > after about 15-20 songs xmms locks up hard and jumps to using 100% cpu. > kill -9 doesn't work, and any other app that tries to use the pcm device > locks as well. i have to reboot to fix it. which kernel version are you using? the new code on rc7 simply tries allocation via vmalloc(). if it fails, it means that the system resource is really exhausted. or, there might be memory leak or so... Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel