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