Re: sfxload / asfxload page allocation failure

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:37:10 +0100,
holborn wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I have problems when i try to load "big" soundfonts, in older versions i was 
> load this soundfonts without probems.
> 
> when i run sfxload or asfxload with PC51f.sf2 (for example ... ) asfxload or 
> sfxload try to load but no returnd to command line. No way to kill the 
> process, no way to load other soundfonts and when i reboot i have this 
> message:

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?


Takashi


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