From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: schmitz Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC 02/30] scsi: atari_scsi: fix sleep_on race Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:08:20 +1300 Message-ID: <52EA0874.7070302@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> References: <1388664474-1710039-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <70d98fc4293247b4d5a11235a1d676b6@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> <52D1F299.7080909@gmail.com> <201401122100.28877.arnd@arndb.de> <52E61895.6000007@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f177.google.com ([209.85.192.177]:44823 "EHLO mail-pd0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751025AbaA3IIN (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jan 2014 03:08:13 -0500 Received: by mail-pd0-f177.google.com with SMTP id x10so2721940pdj.22 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:08:13 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Michael Schmitz , Linux//m68k 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? >> > > How much RAM and swap do you have? > 14 MB ST-RAM, 512 MB FastRAM, 2GB swap. > Modern kernels just require more memory... > Surely not that much more, I hope? Cheers, Michael >