DMA memory shortage?

Nicholas M. Kirsch (nkirsch@biznatch.nick.org)
Wed, 9 Dec 1998 15:01:02 -0800 (PST)

I'm running kernel version 2.1.130 on a Dual PPro. Everything has worked
beautifully until today, when I got this while trying to format a floppy :

yoda:/tmp# mkfs.msdos /dev/fd0
mkfs.msdos 0.4, 27th February 1997 for MS-DOS/FAT/FAT32 FS
DMA memory shortage. Temporarily falling back on virtual DMA
mkfs.msdos: unable to open /dev/fd0

I have 320 MB of memory, so this is very odd.

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 322052 321000 1052 16392 172216 116576
-/+ buffers/cache: 32208 289844
Swap: 0 0 0

I have no I/O processes running, just two highly CPU intensive tasks, but
they have priority 20.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks,
Nick

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