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DateMon, 7 Sep 1998 11:17:58 +0200 (CEST)
FromGeert Uytterhoeven <>
SubjectRe: Sound and floppy DMA problem in 2.0.35...
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Daniel Ryde wrote:
> Is there really no solution to these out of DMA memory problem in
> 2.0.35?
> 
> $ say hello
> /dev/dsp: Out of memory
> $ mdir
> Can't open /dev/fd0: No such device or address
> Cannot initialize 'A:'
> $ dmesg
> [...]
> Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
> floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory
> $ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        127820     124932       2888      27452      32276      68916
> -/+ buffers:            23740     104080
> Swap:        48380        176      48204
> 
> 
> Now I need to reboot to get it to working again... *sigh*

If you had at least 128 MB swap you could use the following small program to
flush the memory:

    void *p = malloc(120*1024*1024);
    memset(p, 0, 120*1024*1024);

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium

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