Hi, My box has now accumulated almost 3 weeks of uptime, and so the ALSA memory problem is back again:
$ aplay /usr/lib/sounds/jungle_exit.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/lib/sounds/jungle_exit.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:297:(snd_pcm_hw_hw_params) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed: Cannot allocate memory aplay: set_params:814: Unable to install hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S16_LE SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: 16 FRAME_BITS: 32 CHANNELS: 2 RATE: 22050 PERIOD_TIME: 100000 PERIOD_SIZE: 2205 PERIOD_BYTES: 8820 PERIODS: 5 BUFFER_TIME: 500000 BUFFER_SIZE: 11025 BUFFER_BYTES: 44100 TICK_TIME: 10000 Is that patch you sent me to hack^Wfix this still relevant, or will it make things worse? I've noticed a few changes to these parts of the kernel drivers. As an aside, my memory looks like this: $ free -t total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1033544 1011004 22540 0 53776 728244 -/+ buffers/cache: 228984 804560 Swap: 498004 8168 489836 Total: 1531548 1019172 512376 Isn't Linux supposed to surrender disk-cache memory if another process requests it? Surely *some* of that 1011004 KB cache must be usable!? Chris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel