From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264609AbUGSAHo (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:07:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264610AbUGSAHo (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:07:44 -0400 Received: from pimout2-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.101]:7085 "EHLO pimout2-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264609AbUGSAHn (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:07:43 -0400 Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:07:38 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Andrew Morton Cc: Ed Sweetman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: audio cd writing causes massive swap and crash Message-ID: <20040719000738.GA8261@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <40F9854D.2000408@comcast.net> <20040717123443.18065893.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040717123443.18065893.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 12:34:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ed Sweetman 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