From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: kladit@t-online.de (Klaus Dittrich)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.11.p4 and dd
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 14:04:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011008140422.0ed9eaa0.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011007203540.A392@df1tlpc.local.here>
In-Reply-To: <20011007203540.A392@df1tlpc.local.here>
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001 20:35:40 +0200 kladit@t-online.de (Klaus Dittrich) wrote:
> dd does not work anymore.
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024k
>
> stops with "File size limit exceeded"
>
> Using kernel 2.4.3 the same command works fine.
>
> 2.4.3 uses a large amount of buffer, 2.4.11p4 only chache.
> 2.4.3 doesn't swap, 2.4.11p4 eats up 1 GB RAM and 100 MB swap.
Please try 2.4.11-pre5.
pre4 is seriously broken regarding high vm loads.
Regards,
Stephan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-08 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-07 18:35 2.4.11.p4 and dd Klaus Dittrich
2001-10-08 11:45 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-10-09 7:03 ` Constantin Loizides
2001-10-09 20:55 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-08 12:04 ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]
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