[wellylug] CPU load

[jumbophut]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:17:48 +1300, Gordon Paynter wrote:
>
> Having read (very briefly) about DMA (I'm a software person), I'm a bit
> surprised that the program works at all with DMA errors.  Based on the
> syslog, it looks like the kernel (2.6.7) detects DMA failures, and since the
> whole process doesn't fall over right away, I imagine it (the kernel) falls
> back to non-DMA transfers?  Or does the data being transferred just...
> dissappear?
> 
I found I had trouble with DMA errors on one of machines with a 2.4.2x
kernel.  I regressed to 2.4.18 and everything worked again.  So it
doesn't have to be a hardware problem.

Cheers
Tony

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