From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266311AbUGVPI6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:08:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266124AbUGVPHf (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:07:35 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:40414 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266311AbUGVPGv (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:06:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:54:50 -0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Ed Sweetman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: audio cd writing causes massive swap and crash Message-ID: <20040722125450.GC3987@suse.de> References: <40F9854D.2000408@comcast.net> <20040718071830.GA29753@suse.de> <40FBBAAE.5060405@comcast.net> <40FC2E60.2030101@comcast.net> <40FF4563.5070407@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40FF4563.5070407@comcast.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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