Re: audio cd writing causes massive swap and crash

From: Chris Wedgwood (cw_at_f00f.org)
Date: 07/19/04

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To: Andrew Morton <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
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