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"Udo A. Steinberg" <us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
>
> I've tried to download 700 MB of data from a digital camera via USB using
>  "gphoto2 --get-all-files" and I can repeatedly run my 128 MB box out of
>  memory using either Linux 2.4.26 or 2.6.8.1 for that.

whee.  How much swap is online?

Not that it matters - you seem to have a bunch of reclaimable pagecache
just sitting there.  Very odd.

Could gphoto2 be using mlock?  Does it run as root?