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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ed Sweetman <safemode@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: audio cd writing causes massive swap and crash
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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.

What is the full cdrecord command line?

Were earlier kernels OK?