Re: sb sound in 2.1.78 not releasing DMA mem.
Garst R. Reese (reese@isn.net)
Thu, 08 Jan 1998 05:14:23 -0400
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > This problem has existed since the first attempts to modularize sound
> > (.68?)
>
> Yes
>
> > repeat the process and total keeps going down.
>
> I know. The sb driver does effectively leak memory. Unloading the whole
> sound system might reclaim it. This one is still on my bug list but will
> get cleaned up
>
> Alan
Thanks, I'm a patient man :), but perhaps some big time sound users
could get crashes if they did not notice this.
--
Garst