Subject: RE: [ecasound] ecawave memory problems...
From: Hadley, Alex (alex.hadley_AT_domino-uk.com)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 11:04:14 EET
Hi,
The version of ecasound I'm using is 2.0.0, and ecawave is the 0.4.1. They
were both compiled from source.
Regards,
Alex.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: S. Massy [SMTP:theanaloguekid_AT_tak.net.dhis.org]
> Sent: 30 November 2001 16:42
> To: ecasound-list_AT_wakkanet.fi
> Subject: Re: [ecasound] ecawave memory problems...
>
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Hadley, Alex <alex.hadley_AT_domino-uk.com> wrote:
>
> > Good morning Kai,
> >
> > I tried redirecting default-output as you suggested but unfortunately it
> > seemed to make no difference. The program still crashes with the same
> 'out
> > of memory' error in the xterm window and strace is still showing that
> it's
> > trying to allocate too much memory:
> >
> > read(6,
> > "\241\10\252\tu\n\361\10\333\10V\10\204\5u\7\241\6%\5M\6"..., 4096) =
> 2934
> > _llseek(6, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0
> > read(6, "RIFFn\213\0\0WAVEfmt \20\0\0\0\1\0\1\0D\254\0\0\210X\1"...,
> > 4096) = 4096
> > _llseek(6, 4096, [4096], SEEK_SET) = 0
> > _llseek(6, 4096, [4096], SEEK_SET) = 0
> > _llseek(6, 4096, [4096], SEEK_SET) = 0
> > old_mmap(NULL, 268439552, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> > MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
> > brk(0x18127000) = 0x8126000
> > old_mmap(NULL, 2097152, PROT_NONE,
> > MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0) = 0x40c77000
> > munmap(0x40c77000, 561152) = 0
> > munmap(0x40e00000, 487424) = 0
> > mprotect(0x40d00000, 32768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0
> > old_mmap(NULL, 268439552, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> > MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
> > write(2, "out of memory", 13out of memory) = 13
> > write(2, "\n", 1
> > ) = 1
> > _exit(1)
> Seems familiar to me... I encountered something similar in an ECI app.
> Might I ask what version you're using? Also, is it just a binary or is
> it compiled from source?
> >
> > I don't know if the above is of any help, but I thought you may be able
> to
> > make some sense of it. I'm wondering if there is something fundamental
> that
> > I could be doing wrong. As I said already, I'm fairly new to Linux and
> Unix
> > so if you can think of any basic things that need checking, let me know
> -
> > although I did make an effort to follow the Install instructions to the
> > letter.
> >
> > Thanks for the help,
> >
> > Alex.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Kai Vehmanen [SMTP:k_AT_eca.cx]
> > > Sent: 28 November 2001 17:25
> > > To: 'ecasound-list_AT_wakkanet.fi'
> > > Subject: Re: [ecasound] ecawave memory problems...
> > >
> > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Hadley, Alex wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ecawave seems to runs OK up until the point when I actually try to
> play
> > > a
> > > > sound that I've loaded. As soon as I hit 'start', the program
> crashes
> > > with
> > > > an error in the xterm window saying 'out of memory'. strace says
> that
> > > it
> > > > tries to allocate 268MB of memory, I think - I'm fairly new to the
> whole
> > >
> > > Try setting...
> > >
> > > --cut--
> > > default-output = rtnull
> > > --cut--
> > >
> > > to your ~/.ecawaverc (rtnull replaces /dev/pds), and see whether it
> still
> > > crashes.
> > >
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