From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: memory not released after using cdrecord/cdrdao (was: audio cd writing causes massive swap and crash)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:08:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040729000855.GI2334@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040725094605.GA18324@zombie.inka.de>
* Ed Sweetman [Sat, Jul 17 2004, 04:00:13PM]:
>> Both with 2.6.7-rc3 and 2.6.8-rc1-mm1 I get the same behavior when
>> writing an audio cd on my plextor px-712a. DMA is enabled and normal
>> data cds write as expected, but audio cds will cause (at any speed) the
>> box to start using insane amounts of swap (>150MB) and eventually cause
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:46:05AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Just FYI: we have a similar bug description in the Debian BTS, where the
> user reports that kernel does not release memory assigned to userspace
> after cdrdao or cdrecord have used it (writting in DAO mode), though he
> could not find what allocated this memory. For details:
> http://bugs.debian.org/256871 (dump attached).
Is there any way we could get a characterization of the kind of memory
that's proliferating here? e.g. could you snapshot /proc/meminfo,
/proc/slabinfo, and /proc/vmstat at regular intervals during the run?
-- wli
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-29 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-25 9:46 memory not released after using cdrecord/cdrdao (was: audio cd writing causes massive swap and crash) Eduard Bloch
2004-07-26 1:30 ` Ed Sweetman
2004-07-26 9:10 ` OOM-killer going crazy. (was: Re: memory not released after using cdrecord/cdrdao) Jan-Frode Myklebust
2004-07-26 10:55 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-26 11:10 ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2004-07-26 11:43 ` OOM-killer going crazy Nick Piggin
2004-07-26 12:46 ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2004-07-27 1:00 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-26 13:02 ` Ed Sweetman
2004-07-27 4:19 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-27 10:07 ` Jens Axboe
2004-07-27 13:23 ` Ed Sweetman
2004-07-27 13:30 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-27 22:38 ` Ed Sweetman
2004-07-28 1:00 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-28 6:30 ` Ed Sweetman
2004-07-28 6:45 ` Jens Axboe
2004-07-28 12:58 ` Ed Sweetman
2004-07-28 13:31 ` Jens Axboe
2004-07-29 0:08 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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