From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Ed Sweetman <safemode@comcast.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: audio cd writing causes massive swap and crash
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:07:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040719000738.GA8261@taniwha.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040717123443.18065893.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 12:34:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ed Sweetman <safemode@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Both with 2.6.7-rc3 and 2.6.8-rc1-mm1 I get the same behavior when
> > writing an audio cd on my plextor px-712a. DMA is enabled and
> > normal data cds write as expected, but audio cds will cause (at
> > any speed) the box to start using insane amounts of swap (>150MB)
> > and eventually cause the box to crash before finishing the cd.
There is a memory leak somewhere when writing CDs, I've seen this
myself. Basically for me all low-memory is leaked and with only
highmem left things go bad.
> What is the full cdrecord command line?
doesn't matter for me
> Were earlier kernels OK?
2.4.x is OK for me, it's been this way in 2.6.x for a very long time,
I keep forgetting to poke about and have a look why.
--cw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-19 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-17 20:00 Ed Sweetman
2004-07-17 19:34 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-19 0:07 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2004-07-17 20:41 ` bert hubert
2004-07-18 7:19 ` Jens Axboe
2004-07-19 12:12 ` Ed Sweetman
2004-07-19 20:26 ` Ed Sweetman
2004-07-22 4:41 ` Ed Sweetman
2004-07-22 12:54 ` Jens Axboe
2004-07-22 20:44 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-07-22 23:30 ` Ed Sweetman
2004-07-22 21:40 ` Jens Axboe
2004-07-24 17:56 ` Ed Sweetman
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