From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
marc.smith@esmail.mcc.edu
Subject: Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems?
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:51:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071003105115.GA6300@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C2A8AED2-363F-4131-863C-918465C1F4E1@cam.ac.uk>
On Sat 2007-09-15 08:27:23, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Mark Smith reported a OOM condition when he copies a
> large (46GiB) file from an NTFS partition (using the
> stock kernel driver) to /dev/ null (or to a file on
> ext3, same result).
>
> The machine this runs on has an i386 kernel with 12GiB
> RAM (yes this is not a typo it is 12GiB!).
Yes, that's known broken. 32bit machines with to much memory just do
not work properly.
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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
marc.smith@esmail.mcc.edu
Subject: Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems?
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:51:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071003105115.GA6300@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C2A8AED2-363F-4131-863C-918465C1F4E1@cam.ac.uk>
On Sat 2007-09-15 08:27:23, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Mark Smith reported a OOM condition when he copies a
> large (46GiB) file from an NTFS partition (using the
> stock kernel driver) to /dev/ null (or to a file on
> ext3, same result).
>
> The machine this runs on has an i386 kernel with 12GiB
> RAM (yes this is not a typo it is 12GiB!).
Yes, that's known broken. 32bit machines with to much memory just do
not work properly.
--
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(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-03 10:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-15 7:27 VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems? Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-15 7:27 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-15 10:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-15 10:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-15 10:50 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-15 10:50 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-15 11:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-15 11:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-16 7:22 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-16 7:22 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-16 16:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-16 16:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-15 10:52 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-15 10:52 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-17 14:04 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-17 14:09 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-17 14:09 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-16 22:28 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-16 22:28 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-17 17:04 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-17 17:04 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-17 17:12 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-17 17:12 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-18 14:41 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-18 14:41 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-17 14:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-17 14:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-17 17:11 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-17 17:11 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-17 20:15 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-17 20:15 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-17 20:46 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-17 20:46 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-17 21:11 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-17 21:11 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-19 22:12 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-19 22:12 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-19 22:45 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-19 22:45 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-19 22:50 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-19 22:50 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-19 23:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 23:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 23:37 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-19 23:37 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-03 10:51 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-10-03 10:51 ` Pavel Machek
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