Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Feb 1999 21:00:04 +0100 | From | Q <> | Subject | Re: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer |
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Dan Hollis wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Mark Lord wrote: > > Ever since 2.1.131 (Dec.6/98), my UP systems sees a lot of these > > (even withe 2.2.2-pre2 from the "test" directory): > > Feb 5 22:08:08 foxy kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer > > Feb 5 22:08:18 foxy last message repeated 7 times > > Means that low memory is too fragmented for the kernel to be able to > allocate ISA DMA buffers. This is a problem that has been with the kernel > since 1.1.x days... >
I reported that same error a few days ago, I didn't have much free memory, but I did have alot of cache. Other program could easely use that memory.
I made some memory free by starting some program, and kill it, which did not always work.
I sometimes can generate it, but not always.
Q
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