Hi Ezequiel, Sorry, just saw your suggestion RE: keep_buffers, i will definitely try this out and let you know how it goes. Will probably give it a few days worth of runs to see if it re-occurs. Thanks again! On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:11 PM, a b <genericgroupmail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am seeing occasional issues when using an easycap card on our fedora >>> 17 machine. >> [...] >> >> On a very quick look you seem to be getting out of memory (out of >> blocks of pages large enough for stk1160). Now, this may be some bug >> in stk1160, maybe not. >> >> I'll take a closer look in the next weeks. > > Could you try using "keep_buffers" option? This option should tell the driver > to try to not release the video buffers, in an attempt to prevent > memory from fragmenting. > > Like this: > > $ modprobe stk1160 keep_buffers=1 > > or like this to make it permanent: > > $ echo "options stk1160 keep_buffers=1" > /etc/modprobe.d/stk1160.conf > > Please try this, see if it solves your issue and report your results. > -- > Ezequiel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
