Re: [PATCH, RFC 02/30] scsi: atari_scsi: fix sleep_on race

Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-01-30T07:57:58Z

Hi Michael,

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote:
> While working on the driver, I noticed my Falcon ran into a memory squeeze
> once a day, resulting in oom-killing processes and rendering the system
> unusable. Most likely culprit to trigger this is the daily updatedb run.
> This sort of trouble started pretty much with my work on the SCSI driver,
> based on commit aa5311c454ed0ff959adca29c65be2157f52a84c (3.13-rc7). Do you
> know of any memory leak affecting m68k, introduced between last November and
> 3.13-rc7?

How much RAM and swap do you have?

Modern kernels just require more memory...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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