Re: sfxload / asfxload page allocation failure

[holborn <holborn@telefonica.net>]

On Martes 13 Abril 2004 16:27, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:37:10 +0100,
>

>
> well, it means that your machine has really no RAM available for the
> soundfont.  on 2.4 kernel (or older ALSA version), the driver
> allocated the pages in atomic, so it doesn't go to sleep.
> on 2.6 and current ALSA, the page allocation is done with GFP_KERNEL,
> so it may sleep until the page is available.  it can take a long time
> but must not be infinitely long.
>
> could you check whether the "page allocation failure" message already
> appeared when sfxload hangs up?
> does the message appears once or many times?
>
>

Hi ... the message appears after reboot command ... 
I have load this soundfonts for years :-)
No problems to load the soundfont in kernel 2.6.4 alsa 1.0.2c but still no 
load in 2.6.5, i checked in two machines gentoo and Debian .. 


I made the sfxload after booting ... 


free command after login is:

Mem total 515728    used 37940    free 477788   ----> in kernel 2.6.5
Mem total 515728    used 38916    free 476824   ----> in kernel 2.6.4

Then i try to run sfxload .... in kernel 2.6.4 loads in a seconds ...  in 
kernel 2.6.5 i wait minutes .... then i login in other tty and i try to kill 
the sfxload .... no way ... and i use reboot command .... then appears the 
error message.


Thanks

Josep
 


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