"Brian J. Tarricone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi,
I made some tests. The config was: - HIGHMEM kernel 2.4.21pre4 - amd athlon xp+ 1800, RAM=1Go - alsa drv rc7 - alsa lib rc7 - alsa utils rc6 (rc7 utils don't compile here) - xmms 1.2.7 (debian sid) - alsa-xmms (ALSA 0.9 output plugin for XMMS) 0.9.8 (debian sid) I couldn't reproduce the problem from a fresh reboot, so I tried to simulate a high memory usage. the tests were: sh -c 'a=1; while true; do echo $a; a=$(($a+1)); aplay ~/empty.wav ; done' and sh -c 'a=1; while true; do echo $a; a=$(($a+1)); xmms ~/empty.wav ; done' empty.wav is a ~200ms silence file. the xmms test was done 2 times, the first time with Oss driver output, and the second time with Alsa 0.9 driver output. I didn't mention it before, but I was using xmms + alsa 0.9 driver output when I got the problem. What about you Brian ? I was not able to reproduce the problem with both aplay and xmms(oss driver) loops. Both of them were able to run in these memory usages: Mem: 1033824k total, 808256k used, 225568k free, 21428k buffers Swap: 530104k total, 527296k used, 2808k free, 85520k cached Mem: 1033824k total, 1017000k used, 16824k free, 3068k buffers Swap: 530104k total, 529276k used, 828k free, 26752k cached whereas the xmms(alsa drv) loop gave: ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:297:(snd_pcm_hw_hw_params) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed: Cannot allocate memory 2.4.21pre4 don't produce kernel error, whereas 2.4.21pre4aa1 gives "kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x21/0)" kind of error. After the xmms(alsa output) problem, I was able to rmmod alsa modules, then reload them. -- Laurent ------------------------------------------------------- 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
