Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Dec 1998 02:21:03 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: DMA memory shortage? |
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On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Nicholas M. Kirsch wrote:
> 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.
DMA memory has to be allocated below the 16MB border.
I guess we should keep track of DMA memory and put a kludge in the VM layer to force-free the stuff when we're out of DMA memory :(
cheers,
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