I know I come here late but I hope not too late.

I’ve the same problem : oom-killer is killing everything on my NSLU2 (266Mhz) with Debian _Lenny_ !

I’ve tryied many vm tunings but nothing has worked for me. I’m stucking with that for so long now.

When oom-killer is triggered I do nothing special but just an rsync from my desktop computer to the slug (big dir with many small files).
It also triggers when I copy (with cp) a dir with many small files locally on the slug (from slug to slug).

Some people on the net talk about usb that can cause this type of problem but I don’t know what to do?

How to diagnose and eventually fix that problem “out of memory” ???

If you know a better place where I can ask for help let me know … I don’t want to spent your time (and money)

Sorry for my english I’m french.

Thank you in advance.

thanks for notifying me about the broken links. I’ve (hopefully) fixed all of them now in this blog. The files are still available, but the trick I used to get direct downloads doesn’t work anymore.

I also sent you an e-mail last week about this. I don’t know if my packages will still work without problems with the current Lenny packages. I haven’t used my fixed-point decoders for a while now, because most of my music collection is in MP3 format.

Cheers
Kristian

I hope you you’ll get to read this message as this is quite an old post.

It’s been a while since I visited this post and therefore did not see the links to your Lenny binaries and source files. Unfortunately the links have expired and I’m unable to find this software elsewhere.

I’ve tried patching vorbis-tools myself using the latest version of the patch available on the Firefly forum but I’m running into problems applying the patch.

I’d be really grateful if you could make the files for Lenny available again as I’ve not been able to play FLAC and Ogg files on my Soundbridge/NSLU2 for over 2 years now and would really like to do so as a significant portion of my music library is stored in those formats.

thanks
Emile

sounds like problems with your Firefly Server to me. Maybe with the SoundBridge Software too. Are the .ogg and .flac files shown in the Firefly Collection? Are you sure you have setup the Firefly Configureation and Plug-Ins properly? Are you running the latest SoundBridge Firmware? My SoundBridge Home Firmware is some Months old and I got it using the Beta Firmware access found on the Roku Website; Telnet shows me:
SoundBridge> version
version: software version 3.0.51 Release
blackfin revision 5

The Kernel version shouldn’t matter, as I’ve used other/older Kernels without problems.

I’ve updated my Blog posting and added download links to the libmpcdec and vorbis-tools sources, ready to be rebuilt with debuild and alike.

Good luck again. May the source be with you! :P
Kristian

No problem about the late reply!

The white noise doesn’t seem to happen anymore, but my SoundBridge simply won’t play Ogg and Flac files anymore.

uname -a reports
Linux YGGDRASIL 2.6.18-6-ixp4xx #1 Fri May 9 01:24:25 UTC 2008 armv5tel GNU/Linux

I’m running a slightly older kernel than you, but that shouldn’t make a difference, I think.

Perhaps indeed I’ll have more luck trying to build the packages myself, so I’d be grateful if indeed you could make them available.

Thanks again,
Emile

I don’t know what’s wrong with your ogg setup. Have you tried to decode an ogg to wav on your slug and play it on your pc? Maybe that will work. As for the white noise, the binary package I built is Little Endian aligned, which I’m sure is the type you’d need on your slug too. Just to be clear, here’s my uname -a output for Debian Lenny:

scheff@nslu2:~$ uname -a
Linux nslu2 2.6.24-1-ixp4xx #1 Sun Apr 20 07:37:13 GMT 2008 armv5tel GNU/Linux

Regarding the dev packages you mention, they aren’t needed for running the vorbis tools. I installed them because of build dependencies. The “libvorbisidec-” package is actually called libvorbisidec-dev; the output got trunctated because of the small terminal screen I used. You don’t need this package too.

Well, that’s all I can come up with for now. And sorry for my late answer. Oh, one last thing: I could make the source package(s) (esp. vorbis-tools with tremor) available, in case you’d like to try and build them yourself. Good luck!

Yes, I did install the versions of the

aerion@YGGDRASIL:~$ oggdec –version
oggdec (Tremor) from vorbis-tools 1.2.0

aerion@YGGDRASIL:~$ ogg123 –version
ogg123 (w/Tremor hack) from vorbis-tools 1.2.0

aerion@YGGDRASIL:~$
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=============================-=============================-==========================================================================
ii libogg0 1.1.3-3 Ogg Bitstream Library
rc liboggflac3 1.1.2-8 Free Lossless Audio Codec – runtime C library (ogg)

aerion@YGGDRASIL:~$ dpkg-query –list ‘*vorbis*’
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=============================-=============================-==========================================================================
un libvorbis0 (no description available)
ii libvorbis0a 1.2.0.dfsg-3 The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec
ii libvorbisenc2 1.2.0.dfsg-3 The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec
ii libvorbisfile3 1.2.0.dfsg-3 The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec
ii libvorbisidec1 1.0.2+svn14261-1 Integer-only Ogg Vorbis decoder, AKA “tremor”
ii vorbis-tools 1.2.0-2 several Ogg Vorbis tools

aerion@YGGDRASIL:~$ dpkg-query –list mt-daapd
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=============================-=============================-==========================================================================
ii mt-daapd 0.9-svn-1586 iTunes-compatible DAAP server

aerion@YGGDRASIL:~$ grep -i ogg /usr/bin/mt-daapd-ssc.sh
# script to facilitate server-side transcoding of ogg files
OGGDEC=oggdec
OGG123=ogg123
ogg_file() {
# $OGGDEC –quiet -o – “$FILE” | $WAVSTREAMER -o $OFFSET $FORGELEN
$OGGDEC -q -d wav -f – “$FILE” | $WAVSTREAMER -o $OFFSET $FORGELEN
ogg_file

I don’t seem to have a ffmpeg plugin, maybe that’s because I’m running svn-1586? I tried to install svn-1696 but had to remove it again as the nightly Ron currently provides was not compiled with sqlite3 support. I could of course compile it from source, which I did do for a while, but I got a little fed up with the long time it takes to compile Firefly on the slug :-) so I switched back to the nightlies binary packages that Ron provides.

aerion@YGGDRASIL:~$ mlocate plugin | grep mt-daapd
/usr/lib/mt-daapd/plugins
/usr/local/lib/mt-daapd/plugins
/usr/share/mt-daapd/plugins
/usr/share/mt-daapd/plugins/out-daap.a
/usr/share/mt-daapd/plugins/out-daap.la
/usr/share/mt-daapd/plugins/out-daap.so
/usr/share/mt-daapd/plugins/rsp.a
/usr/share/mt-daapd/plugins/rsp.la
/usr/share/mt-daapd/plugins/rsp.so
/usr/share/mt-daapd/plugins/ssc-script.a
/usr/share/mt-daapd/plugins/ssc-script.la
/usr/share/mt-daapd/plugins/ssc-script.so

I noticed that, unlike you, I don’t have libogg-dev 1.1.3-3 and liboggflac-dev 1.1.2-8 installed. Are these files require or is that something you’ve got installed for other purposes? Also, I don’t seem to have libvorbisidec-, I’ve only got libvorbisidec1

Thanks for your assistance!
Emile

Here’s some version info from my Debian Lenny NSLU2 system:
scheff@nslu2:~$ ogg123 –version
ogg123 (w/Tremor hack) from vorbis-tools 1.2.0
scheff@nslu2:~$ oggdec –version
oggdec (Tremor) from vorbis-tools 1.2.0
scheff@nslu2:~$ dpkg-query –list “*ogg*”
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Beschreibung
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii libogg-dev 1.1.3-3 Ogg Bitstream Library Development
ii libogg0 1.1.3-3 Ogg Bitstream Library
ii liboggflac-dev 1.1.2-8 Free Lossless Audio Codec – C development li
ii liboggflac3 1.1.2-8 Free Lossless Audio Codec – runtime C librar
scheff@nslu2:~$ dpkg-query –list “*vorbis*”
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Beschreibung
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii libvorbis-dev 1.2.0.dfsg-3 The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec (
un libvorbis0 (keine Beschreibung vorhanden)
ii libvorbis0a 1.2.0.dfsg-3 The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec
ii libvorbisenc2 1.2.0.dfsg-3 The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec
ii libvorbisfile3 1.2.0.dfsg-3 The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec
ii libvorbisidec- 1.0.2+svn14261 Integer-only Ogg Vorbis decoder, AKA “tremor
ii libvorbisidec1 1.0.2+svn14261 Integer-only Ogg Vorbis decoder, AKA “tremor
ii vorbis-tools 1.2.0-2 several Ogg Vorbis tools
scheff@nslu2:~$ grep -i ogg /opt/mt-daapd-ssc/mt-daapd-ssc.sh
# script to facilitate server-side transcoding of ogg files
OGGDEC=oggdec
OGG123=ogg123
ogg_file() {
# $OGGDEC –quiet -o – “$FILE” | $WAVSTREAMER -o $OFFSET $FORGELEN
$OGG123 -q -d wav -f – “$FILE” | $WAVSTREAMER -o $OFFSET $FORGELEN
ogg_file
scheff@nslu2:~$ dpkg-query –list mt-daapd
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Beschreibung
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii mt-daapd 0.9~r1696-1.3 iTunes-compatible DAAP server

Oh, and you might need to disable the ffmepg transcoding plugin, that comes with some mt-daapd builds. Read the last paragraph of my previous comment and the Transcoding HOWTO in the Firefly Wiki.