Re: debugging an sfxload prolem under rc8b.1 (and earlier)

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Sat, 8 Mar 2003 11:33:00 -0500 (EST),
William W. Austin <bill@34.mumb.atln.nrcrgais.dsl.att.net> wrote:
> 
> I added a new machine (or upgraded and old one) recently, and moved my main workstation to the newer,
> 2.1Ghz athlon machine :-).
> 
> However although everything else went smoothely, one problem now occurs under all of the drivers from
> fr0rc6.1 through fr0rc8.1.
> 
> My wife is a composer and uses *very* *large* soundfonts.  Using an sblive! 2.1 card, I was
> previously able to do:
> 
> 	sfxload <1st sound font>
> 	sfxload -b <2nd sound font>
> 	...
> 	sfxload -b <7th sound font>
> 
> and these took up about 120 Mb.  No problem.
> 
> Now doing an sfxload of anything larger than roughly 10088 fails after loading the first 10088Mb and
> then closing/exiting.
> 
> Looking a the output of strace sfxload large_font.sfx shows that the load fails due to running out of
> memory like so (last few lines): 

as default, the maximal memory size for soundfont is limited to
128MB.  this is configurable via module option of snd-emu10k1.
pass max_buffer_size=256, for example, to riase the max size to
256MB.

see alsa-kernel/Documentation/ALSA-Configuration.txt for details.


ciao,

Takashi


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