From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: holborn Subject: Re: sfxload / asfxload page allocation failure Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:22:52 +0100 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <200404131722.52087.holborn@telefonica.net> References: <200404131237.11198.holborn@telefonica.net> Reply-To: holborn@telefonica.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Takashi Iwai List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click