Re: sound problems

Robert Woodcock (rcw@oz.net)
Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:02:34 -0800 (PST)


Ben Pfaff wrote:

> > in the first 16MB. There was some memory leak in the sound driver,
> > I do not know if it's fixed yet.
>
> Would unloading then reloading the sound.o module help?
>
>In my experience with this problem (I have 128MB memory), it doesn't
>help.

Once in a while I get this on my machine with 32MB, the temporary cure is to
force a bunch of stuff into swap by running the memsize program out of
lmbench with a nice big number like 20, repeating as necessary.

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Robert Woodcock - rcw@oz.net
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