DMA memory shortage
Spirilis (hannibal@bitsmart.com)
Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:57:37 -0500
I've seen this mentioned in the kernel archives recently before, but I'm just
reporting that 2.1.132ac2 has this same DMA memory shortage problem.
I encountered it when mounting my floppy drive.
Here is the dmesg output:
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
SB 4.16 detected OK (220)
<SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM4096k)>
YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996
registered device ppp0
Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
SB 4.16 detected OK (220)
YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996
<SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM4096k)>
Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
TCPv4 bad checksum from 199.45.39.23:006e to 151.196.123.131:8006, len=29/29/49
VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00
VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00
VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00
DMA memory shortage. Temporarily falling back on virtual DMA
VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00
VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00
The machine is a Pentium 166MMX with 32MB EDO RAM
My /proc/dma looks like:
1: SoundBlaster8
4: cascade
5: SoundBlaster16
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