Re: audio cd writing causes massive swap and crash

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Thu, Jul 22 2004, Ed Sweetman wrote:
> I've had other people test writing.  It appears that scsi-emu is not 
> effected by this memory leak when writing audio cds.  So it would appear 
> that ide-cd along with any of the dependent ide source files is the 
> culprit. But I cannot find anywhere in ide-cd that is apparent to being 
> a mem leak.  There are various conditions in ide_do_drive_cmd that state 
> that the cdrom driver has to be very careful about handling but without 
> intimate knowledge of the driver, I can't be sure that it's sufficiently 
> handling those situations.  
> 
> Surprisingly, it's very hard to find anyone who's used the native atapi 
> mode to write an audio cd in 2.6.  Which is partly why this problem 
> hasn't generated more mail traffic here I would guess. 

That's not true, lots of people use it. But, oddly, the leak isn't
reproducable on any machine I've tested.

-- 
Jens Axboe