Re: Possible dcache BUG

From: Nick Piggin (nickpiggin_at_yahoo.com.au)
Date: 08/20/04

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    Date:	Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:49:55 +1000
To: "Udo A. Steinberg" <us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>

    Udo A. Steinberg wrote:
    > On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:11:54 -0700 Andrew Morton (AM) wrote:
    >
    > AM> "Udo A. Steinberg" <us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
    > AM> >
    > AM> > I've tried to download 700 MB of data from a digital camera via USB using
    > AM> > "gphoto2 --get-all-files" and I can repeatedly run my 128 MB box out of
    > AM> > memory using either Linux 2.4.26 or 2.6.8.1 for that.
    > AM>
    > AM> whee. How much swap is online?
    >
    > Something close to 512 MB.
    >
    > Adding 506512k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1
    >
    > AM> Not that it matters - you seem to have a bunch of reclaimable pagecache
    > AM> just sitting there. Very odd.
    > AM>
    > AM> Could gphoto2 be using mlock? Does it run as root?
    >
    > No, gphoto2 was not running as root.
    >
    > -Udo.

    Can you reproduce the OOM with the following patch please? Then
    send the output.

    Thanks

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