From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268470AbUHQVtQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:49:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268471AbUHQVtQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:49:16 -0400 Received: from mxout.hispeed.ch ([62.2.95.247]:40102 "EHLO smtp.hispeed.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268470AbUHQVtO (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:49:14 -0400 From: Markus Walser To: Dragan Stancevic , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Terrible Memory leak on 2.6 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:49:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <200408150051.34157.visitor@xalien.org> In-Reply-To: <200408150051.34157.visitor@xalien.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200408172349.11738.walsi@freesurf.ch> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org yes, same problem here. And on the SuSE mailing list many other reported the same when burning audio CDRs. I could reproduce it with vanilla-2.6.8-rc3/ 2.6.8-rc4 too. Up to now I was just reading about problems with IDE drives. Best regards, Markus Am Sonntag 15 August 2004 09:51 schrieb Dragan Stancevic: > Hi- > > has anyone else by any chance seen a memory leak during ripping of CDs > or writing CDs. On my system SuSE 9.1 "2.6.5-7.104-default" I can only, > rip or burn one CD. The system runs out of memory and hangs about > half way through the second cd. > > I tried just creating the image but not writing and than doesn't seem to > cause the problem. Only when the CD burner is used I see this problem. > > The burner is an Emprex DVDRW 1008IM, used on an Athlon XP 2500+ > system with 1GB of ram and 1GB of swap. The system seems to lock up > when all the ram is exhausted, the swap is about 90% free. > > I haven't debugged the problem much I just wanted to ask around before > I start digging in. > > Thanks.