Hello!
I'm glad it helped.
So we have *at least* one happy user for the keep_buffers option :-)
In that case, it seems you had a memory fragmentation issue after all.
Regards,
Ezequiel
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:20 AM, a b <genericgroupmail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
--
Ezequiel
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