From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757872AbXJCKvg (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 06:51:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754525AbXJCKv3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 06:51:29 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:2143 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754452AbXJCKv2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 06:51:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:51:15 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Anton Altaparmakov Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List , marc.smith@esmail.mcc.edu Subject: Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems? Message-ID: <20071003105115.GA6300@ucw.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat 2007-09-15 08:27:23, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > Hi, > > Mark Smith reported a OOM condition when he copies a > large (46GiB) file from an NTFS partition (using the > stock kernel driver) to /dev/ null (or to a file on > ext3, same result). > > The machine this runs on has an i386 kernel with 12GiB > RAM (yes this is not a typo it is 12GiB!). Yes, that's known broken. 32bit machines with to much memory just do not work properly. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html