Apr 9 13:11:29 odin kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
Apr 9 13:12:00 odin last message repeated 48 times
Apr 9 13:13:01 odin last message repeated 121 times
...and yet, when it happens (just now, for instance), free tells me:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 95816 91756 4060 76060 4856 29388
-/+ buffers/cache: 57512 38304
Swap: 78864 564 78300
shouldn't that be enough memory? even if the free memory isn't enough,
shouldn't it use some of the buffer/cache space instead? or that whack o'
swap space? or if it might have something to do with the memory being
fragmented, is there something i can do about it?
i'm using kernel 2.0.36 on a pentium 133; memory stats above. :) sound
card is, um, i'm pretty sure it's a pci awe32 pnp soundblaster (not sure
about the pci part offhand.) i'm using several kernel patches:
subs-patch-1.37
portfw-ftp-patch
loose-udp-2.0.36.patch
awedrv-0.4.3
this problem tends to occur once in a while, go on for a while and then
stop for longer periods. as i type this it's been going on for longer
than i've noticed before. ....now it's working again, and free says:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 95816 92632 3184 76248 6460 28328
-/+ buffers/cache: 57844 37972
Swap: 78864 564 78300
can anyone shed any light on this? i've searched on the web and found
surprisingly little - mostly posts asking why it was happening, but no
responses.
if you need any more information about my system, let me know.
-damon
Damon Harper des Jumeaux _/\_ "Then you'll excuse me...
damon@jumeaux.bc.ca __\ /__ I'm in the middle of fifteen
Les Jums: jumeaux@jumeaux.bc.ca \ / things, all of them annoying."
http://www.jumeaux.bc.ca/damon/ |/||\| - Commander Susan Ivanova, B5
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