On Wednesday 28 December 2005 08:14, Hans Nieser wrote:
> Hans Nieser wrote:
> >Hi list,
> >
> >Recently, after messing around a bit (changing freqs with ivtv-tune
> > and catting /dev/video0 to a test file or opening the device
> > directly with mplayer) with my WinTV PVR150 MCE tv-card, I noticed
> > that my system had slown down a lot. When I later checked my
> > /var/log/messages file I noticed that it had grown from 20mb or so
> > to 700+ mb. Inside there were a lot of these messages, about 40
> > every second:
> >
> >Dec 28 05:54:56 aphax ivtv0 warning: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #6987658:
> >Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocated
> >Dec 28 05:54:56 aphax ivtv0 warning: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #6987659:
> >Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocated
> >Dec 28 05:54:56 aphax ivtv0 warning: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #6987660:
> >Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocated
> >
> >I am going to guess that a simple reboot will put the ivtv driver /
> > card back into a normal state, but I wonder how it got this way,
> > can anyone assist?
> >
> >I'm using ivtv-0.4.0-r2 (the -r2 might be the portage revision of
> > Gentoo, not sure) on Gentoo 2005.1 with the linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r4
> > kernel. Let me know of more info is needed.
This message means that the application that reads from the /dev/video0
device cannot read fast enough. So the driver drops data and generates
this message. In 0.4.1 this message is shown only once and the message
text is improved to make it less cryptic.
Hans
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