Hi,
I am not sure if I should post this question here, but this problem (so
far) has only appeared on my Dual PII machine, so I guess I'll post it
here, if I should post it else where, please direct me to that list,
My problem is for some reason, i need LARGE amount of 'FREE' memory to
start my sound application, say, x11amp, mpeg viewer(with sound in that
movie of course). If I have fairly small amount of 'FREE' memory, say
less than 20-30MB, those sound applications won't even start 90% of
time. When I read the log, it says,
"Can't allocate DMA buffer" or something equivalent.
Usually i have to free up LOTS of memories by killing applications
first, or 'wait' until memory become 'free' again. (other applications
doesn't even care....)
but if *normally in my case* i have 100MB+ more free memory, x11amp can
'initialize' and start playing.
This only happened on my Dual PII machine that runs 2.2.10 kernel with
512MB of RAM
Thanks in advance,
-Ying
PS, as a side question, is there any way to 'free' up those 'cached'
memories manually?
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