Re: 3-order allocation failed with cdda2wav

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Tue, Mar 16 2004, DervishD wrote:
>     Hi all :)
> 
>     I've recently started to use cdda2wav (I've been using cdparanoia
> for years and wanted to take a look at cdda2wav), and I have a
> problem: each time I use cdda2wav the kernel spills '__alloc_pages:
> 3-order allocation failed (gpf=0x20/0)' six times.
> 
>     I'm using cdrtools 2.0.3, with kernel 2.4.25 and ide-scsi. I have
> a Plextor CD-writer that I use to do CDDA ripping, but the problem
> appears with other drives too (I've tested with a Liteon DVD, too).
> 
>     Maybe a cdda2wav problem? Kernel problem?

You can ignore the messages, but yeah I know they are annoying...

>     In addition to this problem, I have another one, this time
> related with interfaces: if I use the SCSI generic interface with
> cdda2wav, it runs without problems (well, except that noted above)
> but uses a lot of CPU (up to 60%), so I tested with cooked_ioctl
> interface, and then the CPU use drops to 4% but I got two error
> messages about CDIOCSETCDDA not available, but the allocation problem
> DOES NOT HAPPEN :?
> 
>     Any help? Thanks in advance :)

Upgrade to 2.6.5-rc1, it'll solve all your problems in this area :-)

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Jens Axboe