Hi Ezequiel, Just to report that i haven't seen any recurrence of the issue since applying the suggested "keep_buffers" option. Many thanks for your help. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:33 AM, a b <genericgroupmail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
