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

Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-01-30T08:27:19Z

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:08 AM, schmitz
<schmitz@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> 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?
>
> 14 MB ST-RAM, 512 MB FastRAM, 2GB swap.
>
>> Modern kernels just require more memory...
>
> Surely not that much more, I hope?

512 MB should be plenty ;-)
My poor m68k box has 500 MB less...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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