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

schmitz
2014-01-30T08:08:13Z

Hi Geert,
>> 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?
>>
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> How much RAM and swap do you have?
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14 MB ST-RAM, 512 MB FastRAM, 2GB swap.

> Modern kernels just require more memory...
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Surely not that much more, I hope?

Cheers,

Michael

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