Subject: Re: [ecasound] ecawave memory problems...
From: S. Massy (theanaloguekid_AT_tak.net.dhis.org)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 22:20:26 EET
On Mon, 03 Dec 2001, Hadley, Alex <alex.hadley_AT_domino-uk.com> wrote:
> 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.
Can't help you there, I'm afraid; the problem I had was with the DEV
series and recompiling everything fixed it... Still, you might want to
upgrade to 2.0.3 and do a make distclean;configure;make;make
uninstall;make install. I don't guarantee that it will help you at all,
but it might...
>
> 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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