From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: debugging an sfxload prolem under rc8b.1 (and earlier) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:23:35 +0100 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <200303081633.h28GX00E012600@34.mumb.atln.nrcrgais.dsl.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200303081633.h28GX00E012600@34.mumb.atln.nrcrgais.dsl.att.net> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: bill@34.mumb.atln.nrcrgais.dsl.att.net Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Sat, 8 Mar 2003 11:33:00 -0500 (EST), William W. Austin 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf